Orthographic Learning in Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.

Conclusions: Although the children who are DHH had lower scores in the spelling test of orthographic learning than their TH peers, measures of their reading ability revealed that they acquired orthographic representations successfully. The results are consistent with the self-teaching hypothesis in suggesting that phonological decoding is important for orthographic learning.
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Source: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools - October 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Wass M, Ching TYC, Cupples L, Wang HC, Lyxell B, Martin L, Button L, Gunnourie M, Boisvert I, McMahon C, Castles A Tags: Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch Source Type: research