TY - JOUR T1 - What really matters in the early literacy development of deaf children. A1 - Mayer,Connie, Y1 - 2007/06/12/ PY - 2007/6/15/pubmed PY - 2008/1/4/medline PY - 2007/6/15/entrez SP - 411 EP - 31 JF - Journal of deaf studies and deaf education JO - J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ VL - 12 IS - 4 N2 - With much earlier identification of hearing loss come expectations that increasing numbers of deaf children will develop literacy abilities comparable to their hearing age peers. To date, despite claims in the literature for parallel development between hearing and deaf learners with respect to early literacy learning, it remains the case that many deaf children do not go on to develop age-appropriate reading and writing abilities. Using written language examples from both deaf and hearing children and drawing on the developmental models of E. Ferreiro (1990) and D. Olson (1994), the discussion focuses on the ways in which deaf children draw apart from hearing children in the third stage of early literacy development, in the critical move from emergent to conventional literacy. Reasons for, and the significance of, this deviation are explored, with an eye to proposing implications for pedagogy and research, as we reconsider what really matters in the early literacy development of deaf children. SN - 1081-4159 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/17566067/What_really_matters_in_the_early_literacy_development_of_deaf_children_ L2 - https://academic.oup.com/jdsde/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/deafed/enm020 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -