Reading by deaf individuals in logographic language

[Lynn Santelmann]

A student of mine recently gave a presentation in our psycholinguistics
class on deafness and reading/word recognition. One of the questions that
came up during our discussion of the topic and the models for reading was
what happens when deaf individuals are learning to read logographic
languages (such as Chinese or Japanese kanji), since these languages may
require little (or no?) phonological processing.

I've done a preliminary search and haven't come up with much literature at
all in this area at all. I have found some research on reading in
Chinese/Japanese and dyslexia, but not with deaf individuals.

Does anyone know of research on learning to read in Chinese or Japanese (or
other logographic languages) by deaf individuals?

Thank you for your help, I will post a summary of replies.

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Lynn Santelmann
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Department of Applied Linguistics
Portland State University
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