The reading of four profoundly and prelingually deaf children (ages 7-17 years) was studied. (Author/DLS)

The Language Experience Approach (LEA) creates reading materials and writing opportunities through integrated use of the learner's language and experience. Individualized LEA involving a "dictation" approach (child dictates experience; teacher records and reads back experience) is beneficial for hearing-impaired students in terms of increased…

A case study of a proficient deaf student reading two versions of the same story (one syntactically more complex than the other) supports the notion that a firm semantic base enables processing at the syntactic as well as the semantic level. (Author/CL)

Although rewritten or "simplified" materials are often used with older deaf students, the article points out the damage done to the literary quality of an original work as well as to its readability when it is rewritten. Suggestions are given for alternatives to using rewritten material. (Author)

Ninety-six hearing impaired students (seven to 15 years old) completed cloze versions of stories written at the students' respective reading levels. Comparison of the cloze results to both probe and free response measures of comprehension indicated that the cloze procudure produced valid discrimination. (Author/CL)

This position paper discusses how the tenets of Whole Language and Deaf Bilingual-Bicultural Education complement each other. It stresses that Whole Language emphasizes a two-way teaching/learning process and Deaf Bilingual-Bicultural Education emphasizes mutual respect in the sociocultural experiences and values of deaf and hearing people.…

Interviews with 16 deaf high school students and 9 teachers found that teachers underestimated the extent of students' independent comprehension of 3 types of text. The text perceived to be most difficult by both teachers and students was the most interesting to students (but not teachers) and fostered use of a greater variety of metacognitive…