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Direct linkHoffmeister, Robert; Henner, Jon; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine; Novogrodsky, Rama – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022
The current study contributes empirical data to our understanding of how knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) syntax aids reading print English for deaf children who are bilingual and bimodal in ASL and English print. The first analysis, a conceptual replication of Hoffmeister (2000), showed that performance on the American Sign Language…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Syntax, Reading Skills
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
Chan, Yi-Chih; Yang, You-Jhen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2018
This study aims to explore early reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking children with hearing loss (HL) by examining character recognition and linguistic comprehension. Twenty-five children with HL received three measures relevant to character reading: phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA), and character recognition; two…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Chinese, Hearing Impairments, Reading Comprehension
Harris, Margaret; Terlektsi, Emmanouela; Kyle, Fiona Elizabeth – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2017
Forty-one children with severe-profound prelingual hearing loss were assessed on single word reading, reading comprehension, English vocabulary, phonological awareness and speechreading at three time points, 1 year apart (T1-T3). Their progress was compared with that of a group of hearing children of similar nonverbal IQ, initially reading at the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Vocabulary
Hrastinski, Iva; Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
There has been a scarcity of studies exploring the influence of students' American Sign Language (ASL) proficiency on their academic achievement in ASL/English bilingual programs. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of ASL proficiency on reading comprehension skills and academic achievement of 85 deaf or hard-of-hearing signing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, American Sign Language
Parault, Susan J.; Williams, Heather M. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the variables of reading motivation, reading amount, and text comprehension in deaf and hearing adults. Research has shown that less than 50% of deaf students leave high school reading at or above a fourth-grade level (Allen, 1994). Our question is, how does this affect the levels of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Reading Motivation, Evaluation, Adults
