Teaching Reading to Children Who Are Deaf: Do the Conclusions of the National Reading Panel Apply?
Abstract
The authors conducted a synthetic review of the research literature on the reading development and reading instruction of deaf students and compared their findings to the review of research literature conducted by the National Reading Panel (NRP) on four topic areas: (a) alphabetics (phonemic awareness instruction and phonics instruction); (b) fluency; (c) comprehension (vocabulary instruction and text comprehension instruction); and (d) computer technology and reading instruction. In their discussion of the areas of overlap in the two bodies of research and of the implications for future research, the authors note the lack of research with deaf readers on instructional interventions that have been found to be effective with hearing readers and on the implications for isolation from mainstream reading research.
Department
Education
Publication Date
Spring 2005
Journal Title
Review of Educational Research
Publisher
Sage Publications
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.3102/00346543075001083
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Schirmer, Barbara & McGough, Sarah M. Teaching Reading to Children who are Deaf: Do the Conclusions of the National Reading Panel Apply? Review of Educational Research, 75, no. 1 (2005). doi:10.3102/00346543075001083