Reading by deaf individuals in logographic language

[John D. Bonvillian]

Dear Professor Santelmann,
	My memory is a little dim, but I recall that
Rosslyn Gaines of UCLA pursued the topic of reading skills
in Chinese deaf children back in the 1980s.  Basically,
I recall that she presented her findings at a couple of
conferences that I attended in the late 1980s.  I hope this
lead proves helpful.
                          Sincerely,
                          John Bonvillian
On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 10:42:05 -0800 Lynn Santelmann
<santelmannl at pdx.edu> wrote:
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> 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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