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Wauters, Loes; van Gelder, Hille; Tijsseling, Corrie – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021
The present study investigated the relative contribution of the two components in the simple view of reading to the reading comprehension skills of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) adults in the Netherlands. Eighty DHH adults, aged between 30 and 80 years old, were tested on word reading, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Adults
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Hermans, Daan; Knoors, Harry; Ormel, Ellen; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2008
This paper reports on one experiment in which we investigated the relationship between reading and signing skills. We administered a vocabulary task and a story comprehension task in Sign Language of the Netherlands and in written Dutch to a group of 87 deaf children from bilingual education programs. We found a strong and positive correlation…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness, Short Term Memory