From "logographic" to normal reading: the case of a deaf beginning reader.

V. Aghababian , T. A. Nazir (1) , C. Lançon (2) , M. Tardy

1 L2C2 - Laboratoire sur le langage, le cerveau et la cognition
2 Hôpitaux Sud - Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite [CHU - APHM]

Visual word recognition of a profoundly deaf girl (AH) with developmental reading disorders was explored using an experimental technique that measures performance as a function of eye fixation within a word. AH's fixation-dependent word recognition profile revealed that she was inferring the identity of words using a "logographic" reading strategy (i. e., using salient visual features). Following this observation a special training program that enhances the understanding of grapheme-phoneme relations was applied. After few months of training, AH's reading skills improved, while her fixation-dependent performance changed to become like that of normal readers. We discuss the impact of our technique for the early diagnosis of reading impairments.

Domaines: Linguistique

V. Aghababian, T. A. Nazir, C. Lançon, M. Tardy. From "logographic" to normal reading: the case of a deaf beginning reader.. Brain and Language, 2001, 78 (2), pp.212-23. ⟨10.1006/brln.2001.2461⟩. ⟨hal-00653797⟩