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Alamargot, Denis; Morin, Marie-France; Simard-Dupuis, Érika – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
We set out to (i) assess the handwriting skills of signing deaf students, and (ii) examine the extent to which their text composition and spelling performances are linked to their handwriting efficiency. We asked 15 prelingually and profoundly deaf middle-school students (M = 15.18 years), all sign-language users, and a group of hearing students…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Sign Language, Deafness, Hearing (Physiology)
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Lesaux, Nonie K.; Lipka, Orly; Siegel, Linda S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study investigated the influence of cognitive and linguistic skills on the reading comprehension performance of a group of learners from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The study also compared the reading comprehension performance of grade 4 children who entered kindergarten with little or no experience with English (ESL) to that of a group…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Student Diversity, Cognitive Ability, Linguistic Competence