#speechreasding

“A long standing debate in research pertaining to deaf education is whether deaf children read in the same way as hearing children and, in particular, whether they use phonology when reading. Hearing children typically utilize the relationships between letters and sounds when learning to read and spell…. Although deaf children have incomplete access to auditory phonological information, there are alternate ways through which spoken phonology can be accessed visually, including speech reading (silent lipreading), cued speech, or visual phonics.”

Phonological awareness, Speech-reading and Deaf children’s reading