Lipreading, Reading and Memory of Hearing and Hearing-impaired Children

Abstract

The relationship between lipreading, reading and visual and sequential memory was investigated in hearing 10-year-olds and two groups of hearing-impaired 10-year-olds, one educated through the medium of English and the other through British Sign Language. The scores and the pattern of correlations between the variables were hypothesized to be different in the three groups and this was found to be the case. In the case of the hearing, visual memory for complex shapes was significantly correlated with lipreading. For the oral deaf, reading ability was significantly correlated with lipreading, but for the bilingual deaf the correlation was not significant. The possible implications of these findings for the relationships between the cognitive processes involved in lipreading and for the education of the deaf are discussed.

Lipreading in School-Age Children: The Roles of Age, Hearing Status, and Cognitive Ability

“…With regard to group differences in lipreading, the few studies of children and adolescents with HL also present a mixed picture. Arnold and Köpsel (1996) found no difference in lipreading ability between 10-year-old children with HL and those with NH, and Conrad (1977) reported similar findings for15-year-old children. However, Jerger, Tye-Murray, and Abdi (2009) found that children with HL, aged 5 to 12 years, were significantly better lipreaders than those with NH.…”

“…Again, the answer was very clear: Children with HL performed significantly better than those with NH on all four lipreading measures across the age range under consideration. As with the question of age differences in lipreading, the question of group differences (NH versus HL) in children’s lipreading has also been controversial, with some researchers reporting no difference (Arnold & Köpsel, 1996; Conrad, 1977) and others reporting better lipreading by children with HL (Beattie & Markides, 1992; Jerger, et al, 2009; Lyxell & Holmberg, 2000). The present results are consistent with those studies reporting an advantage for children with HL similar to that recently established in adults (Auer & Bernstein, 2007; Bernstein, et al, 2000), and replicate Jerger et al in that this advantage was present at least as early as age 7 years.…”

Spelling in oral deaf and hearing dyslexic children: A comparison of phonologically plausible errors

“…Arnold & Kopsel, 1996;Kyle & Harris, 2010Kyle et al, 2009) and deaf adults (Mohammed, Campbell, MacSweeney, Barry, & Coleman, 2006). However, it is important to emphasise we are looking at PPE here and not the association with literacy outcomes, which will be explored further in other papers.…”

Research Methods in Studying Reading and Literacy Development in Deaf Children Who Sign

“…Other researchers have also found speechreading to be a strong correlate of reading in deaf children (e.g. Arnold & Kopsel, 1996;Campbell & Wright, 1988;Harris & Moreno, 2006) and deaf adults (Mohammed, Campbell, Macsweeney, Barry & Coleman, 2006). Although it is plausible to assume that deaf children who use speech would rely more upon speechreading than signing deaf children, the relationship between speechreading and reading has in fact been observed in deaf children from a range of language backgrounds (Harris & Moreno, 2006;Kyle & Harris, 2010;.…”