Haskins Publications

Number	759
Year	1991
Drawer	14
Entry Date	11/08/1999
Authors	Lillo-Martin, D. C., Hanson, V. L., & Smith, S. T.
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Publication	In D. S. Martin (ed), Advances in Cognition, Education, and Deafness. Gallaudet University Press: Washington, D.C. (pp.146-151).
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0759.pdf
Abstract	[Introduction] What differences adult deaf readers who are proficient at reading English from those who are less proficient? Are there aspects of English grammar that the good reader understands but the poor reader does not? Is there some cognitive factor in the process of reading that good readers are better at? In this paper we address these questions by examining that good and poor deaf readers’ understanding of some aspects of English grammar. In particular, we examine comprehension of one complex syntactic structure-relative clauses-using tests of the comprehension of relative clauses in written English, signed English, and American Sign Language (ASL). We also investigate how good and poor deaf readers’ use of phonological coding in short-term working memory contributes to reading differences (Conrad 1979; Hanson 1982; Lichtenstein 1985).
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