Horney, M.A., & Anderson-Inman, L. (1995). Hypermedia for readers with hearing impairments: Promoting literacy with electronic text enhancements. In K. Hinchman, D.J. Leu, & C.K. Kinzer (Eds.). Perspectives on literacy research and practice (pp. 448-458). Chicago: National Reading Conference.

Hearing-impaired students have difficulty with advanced content area reading materials. This study, a part of Project LITERACY-HI, attempted to ameliorate these problems through the use of chapters from content area textbooks, electronically enhanced to incorporate a range of resources supporting reading comprehension. The results suggest that while students easily learn to operate in the electronic reading environment, they require specific instruction in effective uses of the resources; that multimedia resources are particularly attractive to students, sometimes to the detriment of comprehension; and that students adopt radically different reading patterns depending on their skills and the specific learning task.

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