Researchers at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., are recruiting students for an unprecedented longitudinal study of deaf children in the first stages of learning to read, in hopes of ...

Liam Mohan-Litchfield twisted and manipulated his tiny hands, using sign language to read before a white miniature horse named Thor. "I read a book about my shoes," 7-year-old Liam signed to an ...

Two comprehension studies were conducted with 46 deaf college students. In the first, 20 deaf college students representing higher and lower reading-ability levels were tested for correctly stating ...

Reading comprehension need not be considered to be an elusive construct; for most readers, nonclinical reading problems can be viewed simply as a process influenced by readers' questions. Most reading ...

WITH LOWS BELOW FREEZING. BRIAN, THANKS. A VERY SPECIAL DAY AT THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. AS WE WRAP UP, READING ACROSS AMERICA WEEK TODAY, STUDENTS GOT THE CHANCE TO READ TO ...

Reading is an essential skill in our modern, information-driven society. In recent years, educators and the general public have focused their attention on children with dyslexia, who struggle with ...

Margaret Danowski was a busy mother of five living in downtown Reading when her 5-year-old daughter Rita was diagnosed with hearing loss in 1964. In those days, services for the deaf were virtually ...

Although cochlear implants do allow some deaf people to hear again, adjusting the devices to individual users can be challenging. An experimental new implant is designed to help in that regard, by ...