Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Early linguistic background, and in particular, access to language, lays the foundation of future reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing signers. The current study aims to estimate the impact of two factors - early access to sign and/or spoken language - on reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult Russian Sign Language speakers.

Methods

In the eye-tracking experiment, 26 deaf and 14 hard-of-hearing native Russian Sign Language speakers read 144 sentences from the Russian Sentence Corpus. Analysis of global eye-movement trajectories (scanpaths) was used to identify clusters of typical reading trajectories. The role of early access to sign and spoken language as well as vocabulary size as predictors of the more fluent reading pattern was tested.

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SUBMITTER: Ziubanova AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10548548 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature