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Deaf Readers Reading Beyond the Literal
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 132, Number 4,October 1987
- pp. 291-294
- 10.1353/aad.2012.0711
- Article
- Additional Information
Demographic studies and educational research document that deaf readers encounter world knowledge, linguistic and metacognitive difficulties as they learn to read and read to learn at the interpretive level of understanding. The author advocates a collaborative "externally guided thinking" approach to instruction that helps deaf literal readers learn to read at the evaluative level.