| Number | 453 |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Drawer | 8 |
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| Entry Date | 11/19/1999 |
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| Authors | Hanson, V. L., Liberman, I.Y., & Shankweiler, D. |
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| Publication | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 37, 378-393. |
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| Abstract | Examined the coding of printed letters in a task of consonant recall in relation to the level of success of 16 prelingually and profoundly deaf children (median age 8.75 yrs) in beginning reading. As determined by recall errors, the deaf Subjects who were classified as good readers (Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests) appeared to use both speech and fingerspelling (manual) codes in short-term retention of printed letters. In contrast, deaf Subjects classified as poor readers did not show influence of either of these linguistically based codes in recall. Thus, the success of deaf Subjects in beginning reading, like that of hearing Subjects, appears to be related to the ability to establish and make use of linguistically recoded representations of the language. Neither group showed evidence of dependence on visual cues for recall. |
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