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ERIC Number: EJ1096407
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Apr
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-4159
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Longitudinal Receptive American Sign Language Skills across a Diverse Deaf Student Body
Beal-Alvarez, Jennifer S.
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, v21 n2 p200-212 Apr 2016
This article presents results of a longitudinal study of receptive American Sign Language (ASL) skills for a large portion of the student body at a residential school for the deaf across four consecutive years. Scores were analyzed by age, gender, parental hearing status, years attending the residential school, and presence of a disability (i.e., deaf with a disability). Years 1 through 4 included the ASL Receptive Skills Test (ASL-RST); Years 2 through 4 also included the Receptive Test of ASL (RT-ASL). Student performance for both measures positively correlated with age; deaf students with deaf parents scored higher than their same-age peers with hearing parents in some instances but not others; and those with a documented disability tended to score lower than their peers without disabilities. These results provide longitudinal findings across a diverse segment of the deaf/hard of hearing residential school population.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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