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Phonological awareness, working memory and reading comprehension in deaf children
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Maryam Mokhlesin   , Fatemeh Kasbi , Hoorieh Ahadi , Fariba Sojoudi |
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| Introduction: Phonological awareness and working memory are two
important factors in literacy acquisition. Since auditory system plays an
essential role in phonological processing, we investigated such skills in deaf
population in the present study. Materials and Methods: Twenty deaf children with severe and profound bilateral
sensory-neural hearing loss and twenty healthy control subjects were examined
in this cross-sectional study. Children were students in second grade of public
elementary schools in Karaj city (Iran). All participants were given
phonological awareness, reading comprehension, visual working memory and
auditory-verbal memory tests. Between-groups data analysis was processed and
the relationship between task scores was investigated in the deaf group. Results: Deaf
children had significantly less scores in all tasks (p˂0.001) compared to
their normal peers except for the visual working memory test. There was a
positive correlation between reading comprehension and both the visual working
memory and phonological awareness in the deaf group. Nevertheless no
relationship was found between reading comprehension and auditory-verbal memory. Conclusion: Deaf children used both their phonological awareness and orthographic knowledge
In the reading activity, requiring a good visual working memory. Although it
seems that such children are reliant on their visual ability and not their
auditory or kinetic senses in phonological acquisition |
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| Keywords: Deaf, Phonological processing, Reading comprehension, Working memory |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2013/12/25 | Accepted: 2014/04/13 | Published: 2014/12/11
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