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Morphological sensitivity in deaf readers of Dutch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2011

ANNE H. VAN HOOGMOED ,
LUDO VERHOEVEN ,
ROBERT SCHREUDER  and
HARRY KNOORS
ANNE H. VAN HOOGMOED*
Affiliation:
Radboud University Nijmegen
LUDO VERHOEVEN
Affiliation:
Radboud University Nijmegen
ROBERT SCHREUDER
Affiliation:
Radboud University Nijmegen
HARRY KNOORS
Affiliation:
Radboud University Nijmegen
*
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Anne H. van Hoogmoed, Faculty of Social Sciences, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen 6500 HE, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Deaf children experience difficulties with reading comprehension. These difficulties are not completely explained by their difficulties with the reading of single short words. Whether deaf children and adults lag behind in the morphological processing of longer words is therefore examined in two experiments in which the processing of prefixes by deaf versus hearing children and deaf versus hearing adults is compared. The results show that the deaf children use morphological processing but to a lesser extent than hearing children. No differences appeared between the deaf and hearing adults. Differences between deaf children with and without a cochlear implant were examined, but no firm conclusions could be drawn. The implications of the results for the reading instruction of deaf children are discussed.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 619 - 634
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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