“…On the other hand, DHH signing children have sign-based representations which may support development of word reading skills. Indeed, experimental evidence indicates that there is a signbased route to word reading for DHH signers (Barca, Pezzulo, Castrataro, Rinaldi, & Caselli, 2013;Conlin & Paivio, 1975;Kubus, Villwock, Morford, & Rathman, 2015;Morford, Kroll, Piñar, & Wilkinson, 2014;Morford, Wilkinson, Villwock, Piñar, & Kroll, 2011;Ormel, Hermans, Knoors, & Verhoeven, 2012;Pan, Shu, Wang, & Yan, 2015;Treiman & Hirsh-Pasek, 1983). This is quite remarkable given that sign language and written language do not correspond in sub-lexical structure.…”