Abstract

CAPOVILLA, Fernando C.  and  CAPOVILLA, Alessandra G. S.. Leitura de estudantes surdos: Desenvolvimento e peculiaridades em relação à de ouvintes. ETD [online]. 2006, vol.07, n.02, pp.218-228. ISSN 1676-2592.

Word Reading Competence Test was applied to 805 deaf students from 1st to 9th grade. Results showed that reading competence increased significantly as a function of school grade. The study demonstrated that: 1) hearing readers were fooled by phonological similarity, whereas deaf readers were fooled by visual similarity; 2) hearing readers were fooled by homophonic items than by semi-homophonic ones, whereas deaf readers were not; 3) hearing readers were more fooled by nonwords that are orthographically and phonologically familiar, even if they were semantically incompatible to the associated pictures, than by non-words that are orthographically and phonologically strange, whereas deaf readers were more focused on semantic-orthographic processing than on orthographic-phonologic one, so as to be superior at detecting the semantic inadequacy of known words.

Keywords : Reading; Assessment; Deafness.

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