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Steinkamp, Marjorie W.; Quigley, Stephen P. – Volta Review, 1977
Described is the development of the Test of Syntactical Abilities (TSA), an instrument for measuring deaf children's ability to comprehend and produce syntactically correct written sentences. (Author/IM)
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Tests

Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine; And Others – Volta Review, 1996
The compositions of 49 students (ages 10-14) with deafness or hearing impairments and 49 typical students were compared to investigate the frequency and proportional distribution of written-language variables. Differences were found between the strategies chosen by the students with deafness or hearing impairments in both syntax and semantics and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Partial Hearing

Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine; Downey, Doris M. – Volta Review, 1996
This study of 461 Colorado students (ages 7-18) with deafness or partial hearing investigated the students' psychoeducational development by age and hearing loss, including syntactic comprehension and production, reading comprehension, social maturity, speech intelligibility, and math calculation skills. Traditional standardized measures of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Mathematics Skills

Tur-Kaspa, Hana; Dromi, Esther – Volta Review, 1999
A language assessment procedure was used with spontaneous spoken and written language samples of 13 orally trained children with hearing loss in integrated classrooms in two Israeli elementary schools. Results revealed significant differences between spoken and written language samples of these children in various correct syntactic structures,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language