do deaf people read alot?

deafgal001 said:
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Much more than hearing people. We read captions, CART, books, magazines, comics, text messagings, facebook, internets, etc.
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Good point and if in education, we have to read more than hearing to keep up or keep ahead of hearing people. Preparing etc.
 
Speedy Hawk said:
Good point and if in education, we have to read more than hearing to keep up or keep ahead of hearing people. Preparing etc.
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Yeppers. Yet the hearing parents complain about the deaf schools turning out readers who can't read above a 4th grade level.:giggle:
 
jillio said:
Yeppers. Yet the hearing parents complain about the deaf schools turning out readers who can't read above a 4th grade level.:giggle:
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Same thing here in UK. Stats in UK says Deaf people leave school with reading age of 8-10 years old.
 
jillio said:
Yeppers. Yet the hearing parents complain about the deaf schools turning out readers who can't read above a 4th grade level.:giggle:
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That is true. When I transferred to the deaf school (from a regular school), I was amazed to see them using a text several years prior to the level I was at.

You would need to define what "reading" means. Reading closed captions on a TV program is a different thing than, for example, reading Shakespeare or a text on clinical psychology.
 
As young, I read alot than you thought.

I read 30 or 40 times on Encyclopedia from A to Z include edition 1982 to 1995. I also read many classic books:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking-Glass
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Oliver Twist
• The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Gulliver's Travels
• The Marvelous Land of Oz (story after the movie - "Wizard of Oz")
• Little Women
• Moby-Dick
• Time Machine
•*Man in the Iron Mask
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Robinson Crusoe
• The Three Musketeers
• Treasure Island
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Don Quixote
• Frankenstein
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

That's all I could think of... will come back for more listing.... :aw:
 
I am just starting Ghost at Work by Carolyn Hart. another comedy mystery.
 
The last book I actually read was "Jurassic Park" in 1994. :)
 
I read a lot of magazines and "how-to" books. I also read a lot of mysteries, romance, fantasy and "who-dun-it's". I currently have 3 book going that are not "how-to" books, but they are for preparations of a school lesson for my teens.
 
I seem to read the dictionary a lot also when I am attempting to educate the populace.
 
Maybe at the same rate as hearing people? Perhaps at a higher rate because of watching less tv? :dunno2:
 
I read greens..... *shrug*

I throw a few books and a crap load of Mags in there too.
 
Teachers called me a bookworm.

I love to read. The library staff know who I am by name. :)

Give me Time mag, fiction and some type of Non-fiction books and I am happy as lark.
 
shel90 said:
A Gally graduate here and an avid reader. :)
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I was student at NTID/RIT.
My two best friends were Gally graduate. I read book/newspaper/letters/online for her/him. Should I take their two graduate degrees???
 
deafbajagal said:
I'm an English teacher and it hurts my heart when I saw this. LOL!!!! Dude, you go and pick up a book! Tsk tsk tsk!

Feel free to PM your book report. ;)
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My reading skills and speed improved from closed captioning... not from books. ;)

I still read comic books and manga. ;)
 
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