Mi-Young Webb

Poor literacy skills have been characteristic of the deaf population for decades. National data suggest that median literacy rates of deaf high school graduates have remained consistently around the fourth grade level since the beginning of the twentieth century. About one in five deaf students who graduate from high school have reading skills at or below the second grade level; about one in three deaf students who graduate from high school have reading skills between the second and fourth g...

The Georgia State University Postdoctoral Research Training in Language and Literacy Interventions with Special Populations trained five postdoctoral fellows by offering them individualized research experiences within the context of interdisciplinary research teams.