Lexical processing in deaf readers: an FMRI investigation of reading proficiency.

Individuals with significant hearing loss often fail to attain competency in reading orthographic scripts which encode the sound properties of spoken language. Nevertheless, some profoundly deaf individuals do learn to read at age-appropriate levels. The question of what differentiates proficient de...

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Main Authors: David P Corina, Laurel A Lawyer, Peter Hauser, Elizabeth Hirshorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3554651?pdf=render