Visual reading versus auditory reading by sighted persons and persons withlow vision

A study of two forms of the Auditory Reading Test with 53 elderly participa nts with normal or low vision and normal or impaired hearing found that mil d-to-moderate hearing loss did not reduce the participants' auditory readin g rate as much as was expected. It also found that the participants with lo w vision read at least as quickly using computer and natural speech as the sighted participants did when reading visually.