title: Reading comprehension strategies used by deaf middle-school students.
abstract: 13 reading strategies of deaf adolescent boys and girls attending residential middle schools were compared. Boys reported the lower-level strategy of reading aloud more often than girls. Both reported top strategies of asking someone to explain (dependent) and rereading and looking at the pictures (independent).
authors.affiliation: University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock 72205, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Leirer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dancer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading; D012737:Sex Factors; D013060:Speech; D013663:Teaching; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled