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This study evaluated the performance of hearing-impaired adolescents on tests of specialized cognitive functioning and explored the linkage between cognitive profile and reading achievement. Other variables noted were mathematics achievement, speech production, etiology, and age of onset of hearing loss. Subjects were 62 severely-to-profoundly hearing-impaired students between 15 and 20 years of age, 31 "high readers" and 31 "low readers." Results indicated that, for this sample, cognitive function was below average for the verbal and sequential skills associated with the left hemisphere but above average for the "visuospatial" skills associated with the right hemisphere. Reading performance proved to be highly correlated with cognitive profile, as did mathematics performance and, to a lesser extent, speech and age of onset. Ramifications for instruction are discussed--in particular, development of strategies for using the right hemispheric cognitive strengths, as identified in this sample, to help overcome the deficits in "verbosequential" processing and reading achievement traditionally associated with hearing-impaired students.
H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
January 1989,
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
November 2019,
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
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H B Craig, and
H W Gordon
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