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What Eye Movements Reveal About Deaf Readers

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Levels of illiteracy in the deaf populations around the world have been extremely high for decades and much higher than the illiteracy levels found in the general population. Research has mostly focused on deaf readers' difficulties rather than on their strengths, which can then inform reading education. Deaf readers are a unique population. They process language and the world surrounding them mostly via the visual channel and this greatly affects how they read or might learn to read. The study of eye movements in reading provides highly sophisticated information about how words and sentences are processed and our research with deaf readers reveals the importance of their uniqueness.

Source: Current Directions in Psychological Science

DOI: 10.1177/0963721414567527

Authors: Nathalie N. Bélanger, Keith Rayner

Institution: University of California San Diego

Language: English

Topic: Hearing Impairment and Communication

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Foveal and Parafoveal Codes in Reading, Reading processes in skilled and less skilled profoundly deaf adult readers, Foveal and Parafoveal Codes in Reading