Invisible Speech--Oral Language Skills in Blind Braille Readers.

Scholes, Robert J.; Willis, Brenda J.

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ERIC Number: EJ407857

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Publication Date: 1989

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Invisible Speech--Oral Language Skills in Blind Braille Readers.

Scholes, Robert J.; Willis, Brenda J.

Interchange, v20 n1 p1-13 Spr 1989

Reports results of the administration of a battery of tests of oral language skills to blind braille readers (N=15). Three skills were tested: phoneme deletion, sentence completion, and morphological analysis. Participants were congenitally blind high school students. Subjects differed from sighted readers only in the ability to perform morphological analysis. (IAH)

Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Blindness, Braille, Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Language Processing, Literacy, Morphemes, Oral Language, Phonemes, Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Speech Skills, Tactual Perception, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires

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Language: English

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