American Annals of the Deaf, March 1st, 2001
For more than a generation now, we have had research that seems to indicate that proficient deaf readers make use of the phonology or phonological base of English (or some other spoken language) in processing print. Leaving aside what we mean by phonology, or phones, or phonetic, or phonemic, or even morphophonemic, especially when they concern individuals with profound hearing losses, the consensus among some educators of the deaf assumes that deaf children must have access to the sound system to become literate. The conclusion is then that we educators must teach deaf children the sound syst...
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