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

INTRODUCTION: 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...

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Autores principales: Ziubanova, Anastasia A., Laurinavichyute, Anna K., Parshina, Olga
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10548548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37799519
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145638
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author Ziubanova, Anastasia A.
Laurinavichyute, Anna K.
Parshina, Olga
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description INTRODUCTION: 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.
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spelling pubmed-105485482023-10-05 Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers? Ziubanova, Anastasia A. Laurinavichyute, Anna K. Parshina, Olga Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10548548/ /pubmed/37799519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145638 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ziubanova, Laurinavichyute and Parshina. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Parshina, Olga
Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
title Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
title_full Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
title_fullStr Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
title_full_unstemmed Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
title_short Does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
title_sort does early exposure to spoken and sign language affect reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult signers?
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10548548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37799519
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1145638
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