Speechreading Ability Is Related to Phonological Awareness and Single-Word Reading in Both Deaf and Hearing Children

Autor: Hannah Pimperton, Fiona E. Kyle, Amelia Ralph-Lewis, Elizabeth Buchanan-Worster, Margaret Harris, Indie Beedie, Charles Hulme, Mairéad MacSweeney
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR
ISSN: 1558-9102
1092-4388
Popis: Purpose Speechreading (lipreading) is a correlate of reading ability in both deaf and hearing children. We investigated whether the relationship between speechreading and single-word reading is mediated by phonological awareness in deaf and hearing children. Method In two separate studies, 66 deaf children and 138 hearing children, aged 5–8 years old, were assessed on measures of speechreading, phonological awareness, and single-word reading. We assessed the concurrent relationships between latent variables measuring speechreading, phonological awareness, and single-word reading. Results In both deaf and hearing children, there was a strong relationship between speechreading and single-word reading, which was fully mediated by phonological awareness. Conclusions These results are consistent with ideas from previous studies that visual speech information contributes to the development of phonological representations in both deaf and hearing children, which, in turn, support learning to read. Future longitudinal and training studies are required to establish whether these relationships reflect causal effects.
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