Using miscue analysis to assess comprehension in deaf college readers

Area of Science:

• Linguistics
• Education
• Deaf Studies

Background:

• Miscue analysis is a long-standing tool for assessing reading in hearing students.
• Its application has expanded to deaf and hard-of-hearing students for word- and phrase-level reading difficulties.
• The use of miscue analysis with college-age deaf students remained unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate the utility of miscue analysis for identifying reading comprehension challenges in college-age deaf students.
• To determine if miscue analysis can pinpoint the sources of decoding and word-level text difficulties in this population.

Main Methods:

• Analysis of reading miscues from 10 college-age deaf readers.
• Administration of additional comprehension-related tasks to participants.

Main Results:

• Comprehension of grade-school level texts was contingent upon recognizing and understanding key words and phrases.
• Miscue analysis provided valuable insights into individual reading abilities and strategies.

Conclusions:

• The diagnostic procedures offered effective information for tailoring interventions.
• Miscue analysis is a viable tool for understanding and addressing reading comprehension deficits in older deaf learners.