does anyone know the percentage of deaf people who cant read or where i can find the information!?

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id like to know so i am able to tell someone this thanks!

thankyou Trevor J answers like yours are not helpful!

Answer 1

Though there has been some research done about deaf people's reading levels, there isn't one statistic that has much basis except that most deaf people in America read/write at about a 4th grade level.

In America, most deaf people can read/write, but they often, no matter their background of using sign or speech therapy or whatever else, read/write like English is their second language (whether or not it is). It is very hard to learn a PHONETIC (sound) based language when you can't hear. Also, most deaf people (90%) have hearing parents and have no exposure to language until they enter school (because their parents don't sign, and even if they can learn to lipread, it usually needs to be specifically taught, and is only a minimal way to pick up some language). Deaf people who have the best English skills overall have deaf parents, learn ASL (American Sign Language)as a first language, and then learn English as a second, but strong language.

All of that said, there are also Deaf PhD's, even those deaf from birth, who have near perfect English skills, and intelligence far beyond that of most people. Deafness does not affect intelligence at ALL.

PLEASE, PLEASE, NEVER write a note to a deaf person saying, "Can you read?" It is extremely insulting! If on the off chance they can't, so be it, writing that is worthless. If they can, (which will be true 99% of the time) again, WHAT AN INSULT! This has happened to nearly all my deaf friends, and deaf Phd's whom I know personally!

Answer 2

In America, GRI have examined large numbers of deaf and hard of hearing students who are quite representative of those throughout the United States.

When the Gallaudet Research Institute conducts large educational test standardization studies to obtain norms (percentile scores) for deaf and hard of hearing students, the data collected are used to describe students' achievement. In the last norming of a widely used achievement test, the Stanford Achievement Test, 9th Edition (Harcourt Educational Measurement, 1996), deaf and hard of hearing students aged 8 through 18 were given the test, including the Reading Comprehension subtest. The measure of reading achievement we are using is the Reading Comprehension subtest, a multiple-choice test.

It is important to note that the reading achievement is of deaf and hard of hearing students who are in school. They have no data, thus can not account for adults, or high school graduates.

For the 17-year-olds and the 18-year-olds in the deaf and hard of hearing student norming sample, the median Reading Comprehension subtest score corresponds to about a 4.0 grade level for hearing students. That means that half of the deaf and hard of hearing students at that age scored above the typical hearing student at the beginning of fourth grade, and half scored below. The "median" is the 50th percentile, and is one of the ways to express an average, or typical, score. (A "mean" score, or arithmetic average, is not the same as the median.)

In the UK, the DfES is responsible for data, (Department for Education and Sport) recons that There is an important difference between people who are pre-lingually deaf, that is deaf before learning to speak, and those who become deaf later in life. Many deaf or partially hearing people have speech that can be difficult to understand. This in no way equates with their individual proficiency in language or their intelligence.

The DfES has found that pre-lingually deaf people usually find it harder than others to acquire spoken and written language, as this is generally learned through hearing the spoken word. As adults, their spoken language skills and their understanding of abstract concepts may be less well developed than those of other people, and sign language may be their first or preferred language.

In the UK, a lot of Deaf people haven't had a good enough education at school to equip them with skills that are needed for everyday life. This is particularly true of people who went to school a long time ago. Teachers' expectations of Deaf children weren't high. Fortunately things have improved nowadays and will hopefully continue to do so. Of course, not all hearing people have had a good education. But because of the UK's approach to the option of a bi-lingual education for deaf children (sign - written) there is no data avliable, as many choose sign language, which alienates them somewhat from the non signing world.

Answer 3

Try writing to your local society for deaf people.

Answer 4

instruct her some movies from diverse movies whr d ppl r breaking apart. she'd get d sign!. by utilising d way.. hw did she get to knw tht u luv her while u truly did?? use d comparable technic to instruct her d opposite!

Answer 5

Try Wikipedia or Google it.

Answer 6

i would imagine most deaf people can read!!

Answer 7

Sorry . What was that again??

Answer 8

I'm sorry....come again!.................what!