WORD COMPREHENSION BY HEARING-IMPAIRED AND HEARING CHILDREN

Fourteen hearing-impaired children with a mean age of 11.2 years and a mean hearing loss of 84.42 dB were compared with an age-matched heari ng control on their performance on the Picture Aided Reading Test (PAR T) (1971) and a Saliency Test. Beggs and Breslaw (1983) claimed that h earing-impaired pupils' performance on some items of the PART is the p roduct of a non-reading strategy involving the selection of the visual ly most salient pictures. Our replication of their two experiments sug gests that there is no evidence for their claim.