Adrian G. Dyer
Predictors of Reading Delay in Deaf Adolescents: The Relative Contributions of Rapid Automatized Naming Speed and Phonological Awareness and Decoding
University of East London
deaf readers often fail achieve ageappropriate reading levels hearing children two cognitive factors correlated reading delay phonological awareness decoding pad rapid automatized naming ran visual material study explored contribution factors reading reading delay sample deaf students n 49 mean age 13 years whose reading age ra around 7 years although pad performance poor deaf students compared ramatched hearing controls nevertheless correlated ra whether tested sign speech ran much faster deaf group ramatched hearing controls showed direct relationship reading level reading delay conclude contrast pad factor deaf hearing reading achievement ran may indirectly related reading deaf students