Deaf individuals have unique sensory and linguistic experiences that influence how they
read and become skilled readers. This review presents our current understanding of the …

Although evidence is still scarce, recent research suggests key differences in how deaf and
hearing readers use visual information during visual word recognition. Here we compared …

Reading continues to be a challenging task for most deaf children. Bimodal bilingual
education creates a supportive environment that stimulates deaf children's learning through …

Behavioral studies have shown that the legibility of handwritten script hinders visual word
recognition. Furthermore, when compared with printed words, lexical effects (eg, word …

Brand names are often considered a special type of words of special relevance to examine
the role of visual codes during reading: unlike common words, brand names are typically …

We present a psycholinguistic study investigating lexical effects on simplified Chinese
character recognition by deaf readers. Prior research suggests that deaf readers exhibit …

Leading models of visual word recognition assume that the process of word identification is
driven by abstract, case-invariant units (eg, table and TABLE activate the same abstract …

Phonology is often assumed to play a role in the tuning of orthographic representations, but
it is unknown whether deaf readers' reduced access to spoken phonology reduces …

A straightforward prediction of the Local Combination Detectors [LCD] model of word
recognition (Dehaene et al., 2005) is that letter rotations above 40–45° should disrupt the …

Reading requires the transformation of a complex array of visual features into sounds and
meaning. For deaf signers who experience changes in visual attention and have little or no …