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Beal, Jennifer S. – Deafness & Education International, 2021
Few American Sign Language (ASL) assessments are readily available for educators to administer and score to document deaf students' skill levels and direct ASL instruction. Even fewer studies include deaf students with intellectual disabilities or document deaf students' ASL skills across time. The present study reports deaf school-aged students'…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Skills, Age Differences, Student Evaluation
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Bavin, Edith L.; Grayden, David B.; Scott, Kim; Stefanakis, Toni – Language and Speech, 2010
Infants' auditory processing abilities have been shown to predict subsequent language development. In addition, poor auditory processing skills have been shown for some individuals with specific language impairment. Methods used in infant studies are not appropriate for use with young children, and neither are methods typically used to test…
Descriptors: Intervals, Speech Impairments, Testing, Young Children
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Westerlund, Monica; Berglund, Eva; Eriksson, Marten – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of a screening instrument (the Swedish Communication Screening at 18 months of age; SCS18), derived from the Swedish MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory, in identification of 18-month-old children who will be severely language disabled by 3 years of age, the authors (a) analyzed which SCS18's…
Descriptors: Child Health, Receptive Language, Informal Assessment, Language Acquisition