Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?

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Author(s)Ziubanova, Anastasia A.
Author(s)Laurinavichyute, Anna K.
Author(s)Parshina, Olga
Date Accessioned2024-01-11T19:15:42Z
Date Available2024-01-11T19:15:42Z
Publication Date2023-09-20
DescriptionThis article was originally published in Frontiers in Psychology. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145638. © 2023 Ziubanova, Laurinavichyute and Parshina.
AbstractIntroduction: Early linguistic background, and in particular, access to language, lays the foundation of future reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing signers. The current study aims to estimate the impact of two factors – early access to sign and/or spoken language – on reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult Russian Sign Language speakers. Methods: In the eye-tracking experiment, 26 deaf and 14 hard-of-hearing native Russian Sign Language speakers read 144 sentences from the Russian Sentence Corpus. Analysis of global eye-movement trajectories (scanpaths) was used to identify clusters of typical reading trajectories. The role of early access to sign and spoken language as well as vocabulary size as predictors of the more fluent reading pattern was tested. Results: Hard-of-hearing signers with early access to sign language read more fluently than those who were exposed to sign language later in life or deaf signers without access to speech sounds. No association between early access to spoken language and reading fluency was found. Discussion: Our results suggest a unique advantage for the hard-of-hearing individuals from having early access to both sign and spoken language and support the existing claims that early exposure to sign language is beneficial not only for deaf but also for hard-of-hearing children.
SponsorThis article is an output of a research project implemented as part of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University). AL was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), project number 317633480, SFB 1287. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Projektnummer 491466077.
CitationZiubanova, Anastasia A., Anna K. Laurinavichyute, and Olga Parshina. “Does Early Exposure to Spoken and Sign Language Affect Reading Fluency in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adult Signers?” Frontiers in Psychology 14 (September 20, 2023): 1145638. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145638.
ISSN1664-1078
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33828
Languageen_US
PublisherFrontiers in Psychology
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
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Keywordsreading fluency
Keywordsdeaf
Keywordshard-of-hearing
Keywordssign language
Keywordsmultimodal bilingualism
Keywordsscanpaths
Keywordseye movements
TitleDoes early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
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