With the moving window paradigm which shows the boundary of the right words to the fixation,the present study explored the characteristics of deaf Chinese readers in perceptual span and word processing when they were reading.It was found that:(1)For the deaf students,the left edge of the perceptual span extended more than one two-characters word,and the right edge extended one two-characters word,whereas for the hearing participants,the perceptual span extended one two-characters word to the left and right of fixation;(2)The moving window manipulations affected the two groups with the same trend on the mean fixation duration and the length of saccades toward the right,however,they affected the number of fixation and regression of the two groups differently.It revealed the uniqueness of deaf Chinese readers in perceptual span and word processing when they are reading.