Inadequate development of lower order skills prevents higher order skills from being acquired. Early oral language development is the main precursor of reading development.
Reading levels of deaf or hard of hearing students are delayed due to the limited amount of reading they are exposed to as children, difficulties with language comprehension and cognition are among the subjects that need to be addressed by educators (Marschark et al., 2012). Children who are deaf or hard of hearing commonly graduate high school with a fourth-grade literacy skill level. A student in the fourth grade is mastering skills in the field of sequence of events, summarization, identifying the main idea and understanding similes and metaphors. These skills are incomparable
Reading levels of deaf or hard of hearing students are delayed due to the limited amount of reading they are exposed to as children, difficulties with language comprehension and cognition are among the subjects that need to be addressed by educators (Marschark et al., 2012). Children who are deaf or hard of hearing commonly graduate high school with a fourth-grade literacy skill level. A student in the fourth grade is mastering skills in the field of sequence of events, summarization, identifying the main idea and understanding similes and metaphors. These skills are incomparable