Brain-based individual difference measures of reading skill in deaf and hearing adults
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Brain-based individual difference measures of reading skill in deaf and hearing adults.
Most deaf children and adults struggle to read, but some deaf individuals do become highly proficient readers. There is disagreement about the specific causes of reading difficulty in the deaf population, and consequently, disagreement about the effectiveness of different strategies for teaching reading to deaf children. Much of the disagreement surrounds the question of whether deaf children r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychologia
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0028-3932
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.05.004