Reading by deaf individuals in logographic language

[Lynn Santelmann]

Thank you to everyone who responded to my query for literature on reading
in logographic scripts by deaf individuals.

The bottom line is best summarized by the response that I got from Mary
Erbaugh: "Sadly, reading achievement is just as low in Chinese speaking
deaf children as it is for their European peers. This is because reading
characters depends most strongly on phonological decoding and
metalinguistic awareness of spoken divisions of word, syllable, rime and
phoneme.  Visual memory is not more important than with reading alphabets.
About 85% of characters have phonetic cues (which do differ in accessibility)."

A very big thank you to Mary Erbaugh for sending me the book that she
edited, which talks about learning to read Chinese and Japanese in general:
Erbaugh, Mary S. (ed.) (2002). Difficult Characters: Studies in Chinese and
Japanese Writing. Foreign Language Publications, Ohio State University.
ISBN 0-87415-344-1.

Finally, a special thank you to Matt Dye, who sent me his extensive
bibliography on reading in logographic scripts. I have pasted his
bibliography with a few additions that I received from other people. Most
of this literature covers typically developing readers and reading in
Chinese/Japanese in general, but it is a valuable resource!

Lynn Santelmann

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Lynn Santelmann, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor, Applied Linguistics
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