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Visual skills and cross-modal plasticity in deaf readers: possible implications for acquiring meaning from print

Visual skills and cross-modal plasticity in deaf readers: possible implications for acquiring meaning from print

Authors :
Matthew W G, Dye
Peter C, Hauser
Daphne, Bavelier
Source :
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1145 (2008) pp. 71-82
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

Most research on reading skill acquisition in deaf individuals has been conducted from the perspective of a hearing child learning to read. This approach may limit our understanding of how a deaf child approaches the task of learning to read and successfully acquires reading skills. An alternative approach is to consider how the cognitive skills that a deaf child brings to the reading task may influence the route by which he or she achieves reading fluency. A review of the literature on visual spatial attention suggests that deaf individuals are more distracted by visual information in the parafovea and periphery. We discuss how this may have an influence upon the perceptual processing of written text in deaf students.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00778923
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1145 (2008) pp. 71-82
Accession number :
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