出版社：Universidade Federal do Parana̧, Departamento de Psicologia
摘要：The use of sign language by the deaf, though a means of providing access to knowledge, offers somespecific difficulties on reading/writing due to the impossibility on acquiring the written code of theofficial spoken language. Taking into account that some oral cues favor textual cohesion, the questionthis paper is mainly concerned with is whether the use of oral cues in writing favors comprehension aswell. The aim of this research was to offer written texts produced by the deaf to the non deaf to see howthe text was understood by these speakers. Some written fragments contained two or more oral cues,some with just one cue or with no cues produced by the deaf and some texts produced by the non deafwere offered to university hearing students who were asked to score the texts by means of levels ofcomprehension. The results showed that the answers favored the texts produced by the non deaf peoplefollowed by those with more than two oral cues produced by the deaf; the texts that offered difficulty forcomprehension were those with no oral cues produced by the deaf. This paper suggests that the oral cuesbring cohesion to the texts produced by the deaf thus favoring the hearer text comprehension.
