1977
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1977.tb02339.x
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The Reading Ability of Deaf School‐leavers

Abstract: SUMMARY.Almost every child aged 15-16) years being educated in schools for the deaf and partially hearing in England and Wales, was given Brimer's WideSpan Reading Test which assesses prose comprehension. After excluding certain categories of children, results were available for 355 children. With degree of hearing loss as the main independent variable, results are presented in terms of mean and median reading age, and in reading age percentile form. Reading is significantly affected by degree of deafness and … Show more

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“…The average reading age of the deaf children was three years below that of the hearing children; only 2.5 per cent of the deaf children had a reading age commensurate with chronological age. These results are in broad agreement with those reported by Conrad (1977). On the evidence of the Draw-a-man test, at least, the two deaf groups do not differ significantly.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 95%
“…The average reading age of the deaf children was three years below that of the hearing children; only 2.5 per cent of the deaf children had a reading age commensurate with chronological age. These results are in broad agreement with those reported by Conrad (1977). On the evidence of the Draw-a-man test, at least, the two deaf groups do not differ significantly.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 95%
“…Previous studies of deaf subjects and hearing bilingual subjects who perform differently on tests of English grammar suggest this effect may be linked to the age of acquisition and͞or the degree to which grammatical skills have been acquired in English (19,24). The strong right hemisphere activation in deaf subjects reading English may be interpreted in light of behavioral studies that report many deaf individuals rely on visualform information when reading and encoding written English (47). In the present study, as in previous studies, the right hemisphere effect was variable in extent and was observed in about 70% of deaf subjects.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…In addition, due to their limited social exposure, they also have limited prior knowledge. In relation to that, Conrad (1977) has conducted a research on the DH reading level. He found that the reading level of the DH is seven years younger than that of the hearing.…”
Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%