A piece of the puzzle: ASL and reading comprehension in deaf children.

By R. Hoffmeister. 2000

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The changing context for sign bilingual education programs: issues in language and the development of literacy (2010, background): “…research indicates positive correlations between higher levels of development in a natural signed language and higher levels of literacy (e.g. Hoffmeister 2000; Padden and Ramsey 2000; Strong and Prinz 1997), ‘higher’ is not well-defined and it remains unclear as to whether outcomes are…”
American Sign Language syntactic and narrative comprehension in skilled and less skilled readers: Bilingual and bimodal evidence for the linguistic basis of reading (2008, background): “These results corroborate previous findings showing that reading and sign language proficiency are correlated in deaf children who sign (Hoffmeister, 2000; Padden & Ramsey, 2000; Strong & Prinz, 1997).”
How Do Profoundly Deaf Children Learn to Read? (2001, background): “In fact, controlling for whether a child’s parents were hearing or deaf, signing skills turn out to be the best predictors of reading skill (Hoffmeister, 2000; Padden & Ramsey, 2000; Strong & Prinz, 2000).”