READING ABILITIES AND SPEECH-INTELLIGIBILITY OF INTEGRATED HEARING-IMPAIRED CHILDREN

The New Macmillan Reading Analysis (1985) was administered to 14 integrated hearing-impaired children, with a mean hearing loss of 58.8 dB, and to 14 age-matched hearing controls. Both groups read equally well in terms of accuracy, but the hearing had superior comprehension. The hearing-impaired and the hearing controls were retarded in terms of the published norms. Their speech intelligibility was rated and compared with that in other studies. All of the hearing-impaired were educated orally with the support of the Salford Education Service for the Hearing-Impaired.