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This chapter presents the data related to receptive language for the VL2 Psychometric Toolkit Project. The data were generated using multiple measures, including an experimental measure of American Sign Language skills, a measure of receptive fingerspelling skills, a visual measure of English phonology, the Koo Phoneme Detection Test, a measure of knowledge of English syntax, the Test of Syntactic Ability, and a measure of visual reception of spoken language, the Lipreading Screening Test (LST). The sample was comprised of deaf college students evaluated as part of the VL2 Psychometric Toolkit. In addition to providing descriptive statistics, correlations with a brief measure of nonverbal intelligence and measures of executive, visuospatial, memory, and other aspects of linguistic functioning and academic achievement administered concurrently as part of the VL2 Toolkit are presented. The relationships observed are discussed in the context of both research in the general population and, when available, previous research with deaf individuals.
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Morere, D.A., Koo, D.S. (2012). Measures of Receptive Language. In: Morere, D., Allen, T. (eds) Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5269-0_9
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