Pinheiro, Ângela Maria VieiraToffolo, Andreia Chagas RochaVilhena, Douglas de Araújo2020-08-192020-08-192020PINHEIRO, A. M. V.; TOFFOLO, A. C. R. Reading strategies for the profoundly deaf Libras users: benefits of speech and lip reading for strengthening linguistic skills. Estudos de Psicologia, Campinas, v. 37, maio. 2020. Disponível em: <https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0103-166X2020000100305&script=sci_arttext>. Acesso em: 03 jul. 2020.1982-0275http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/12624To understand the reading strategies used by deaf students, two groups of profoundly deaf individuals were tested: Group 1: users of the Brazilian Sign Language and Group 2: users of the Brazilian Sign Language and speech and/or lip reading. A reading test was used to assess the degree of development of logographic, alphabetic and orthographic strategies. The group of deaf students who used alternative means of communication (Group 2) showed improved performance in all psycholinguistic categories of the test in comparison to Group 1. It was observed that the use of phonology is not directly associated with good reading skills in the profoundly deaf. On the other hand, word recognition by these readers occurs via the utilization of the orthographic strategy, which proved to be effi cient.en-USabertoDeafnessLip readingSign languageSpecial educationArtigo publicado em periodicoThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en). Fonte: o próprio artigo.https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0275202037e190003