Anna Kirdyasheva

The article reports low ability of schoolchildren with impaired hearing to understand the content of texts. The author describes results of the study with the use of two diagnostic tasks. It is noted, that children do not perceive the text as a whole. Hearing impaired schoolchildren try to find familiar words and expressions in given stories, remember them and ensure subsequent accurate reproduction. It is most difficult for children to establish inconsistencies between parts of the deformed text, and its subsequent restoration.

The article reveals the peculiarities of texts content understanding by junior schoolchildren with hearing impairments. To assess this ability, a complex of three diagnostic tasks is proposed. The results of children examination are presented. It is reported that junior schoolchildren with hearing impairments distort the content of the texts read. Children focus on individual words, and not on the content of the story as a whole. Students do not define semantic links between parts of texts.