title: Developing the ability of hearing-impaired students to comprehend and generate question forms.
abstract: Hearing-impaired students have trouble with question forms, a fact that is well-documented. To date, the implications of this linguistic difficulty on their reading comprehension have been virtually unexplored. This article discusses the importance of questions as a means of acquiring and clarifying information and as a way to develop independent learning processes. The article also discusses roadblocks to learning faced by hearing-impaired students who have difficulty comprehending question forms, especially WH-question forms. Strategies for diagnosing and developing students' ability to understand questions are described, and the importance of parents and teachers working together is explained.
authors.affiliation: Gallaudet University.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: LaSasso
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*