Deaf children can make rhymes : evidence from a simple rhyme task.
Abram Sterne, Usha Goswami.

Previous research has been equivocal about whether deaf children can develop rhyme awareness. The current experiment investigates the rhyme skills of deaf children (mean age 11 years). Deaf children’s ability to make rhyme judgements was above chance, but poorer than that of their reading matched hearing controls. We conclude that deaf children do have a degree of rhyme awareness. We also discuss how deaf children might have developed rhyme awareness given their impoverished auditory and language environment.