ERIC Number: EJ1278905
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jan
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1081-4159
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Reading Fluency in Young Elementary School Age Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Easterbrooks, Susan R.; Lederberg, Amy R.
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, v26 n1 p99-111 Jan 2021
The Center on Literacy and Deafness examined the language and reading progress of 336 young deaf and hard-of-hearing children in kindergarten, first and second grades on a series of tests of language, reading, and spoken and fingerspelled phonological awareness in the fall and spring of the school year. Children were divided into groups based on their auditory access and classroom communication: a spoken-only group (n = 101), a sign-only group (n = 131), and a bimodal group (n = 104). Previous work reports the overall data (Antia, S., Lederberg, A., Schick, B., Branum-Martin, L., Connor, C. M., & Webb, M. (2020a). Language and reading progress of young DHH children. "Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education," (3), 25; Lederberg, A. R., Branum-Martin, L., Webb, M. L., Schick, B., Antia, S., Easterbrooks, S. R., & Connor, C. M. (2019). Modality and interrelations among language, reading, spoken phonological awareness, and fingerspelling. "Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education," 24(4), 408-423). This report presents an in-depth look at the reading fluency of the participants measured along multiple dimensions. In general, 43% of the participants were unable to read fluently and an additional 23% were unable to read fluently at grade level. Rate and accuracy, rate of growth, miscue analysis, and self-corrections differed by communication modality. Most notably, children demonstrated limited strategies for self-correction during reading fluency tasks.
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Primary Education, Language Skills, Reading Skills, Young Children, Language Usage, Speech Communication, Sign Language, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, Accuracy, Miscue Analysis, Error Correction, Interpersonal Communication, Elementary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Grade 1; Grade 2
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R324C120001