Partially hearing and hearing children's speaking, writing and comprehension of sentences.

Partially hearing, deaf, and hearing children's ability to say, write, and comprehend the same sentences, from the Sentence Comprehension Test (1979), were compared. It was hypothesized that writing sentences would be more difficult than saying the same sentences in all of the three groups. It was further hypothesized that the partially hearing would form an intermediate group between the hearing and deaf. The partially hearing made more errors in both the spoken and written conditions than the hearing who were 2 years younger. The number of phonetic and visual spelling errors made by the three groups were compared.

Deaf children's speaking, writing, and comprehension of sentences.

Sentence tests of speaking, writing, and comprehension were given to 10M and 10F prelingually deaf Ss (mm HTLs: 91 db, mn age: 12.9 yrs). The hypothesis was confirmed that the older deaf population of school children still has difficulty in writing syntactically correct sentences that they can say. This phenomenon was related to the severity of hearing loss. Performance was similar to that of 14 normal-hearing Ss aged 6.1-8.7 yrs. An explanation of the phenomenon in terms of linguistic awareness and Bochner's (1978) linear-sequential hypothesis was advanced. The implications of the phenomenon were discussed for integrating the teaching of speaking, reading, and writing in the classroom.