Journal article

The Relationship between Spoken Language Ability and Intelligence Test Performance of Deaf Children and Adolescents

Maria D Remine, P Margaret Brown, Esther Care, Field Rickards

DEAFNESS & EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2007

Abstract

For several decades the intellectual abilities of deaf children and adolescents, as measured by performance IQ, have been reported as comparable with those of hearing children and adolescents. Differences have been reported, however, on measures of verbal IQ, with deaf children and adolescents typically obtaining verbal IQ scores within the low average to well below average range. More recent studies of the intellectual abilities of deaf children and adolescents using the Wechsler scales, while supporting this finding, have not taken into consideration all subgroups within the deaf and adolescent population nor accounted for the degree of variability in their language abilities. The aim of t..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution and support of the students, their parents and the staff of schools that participated in this study. This study was made possible through the provision of a scholarship from the Cooperative Research Centre for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Innovation and a Melbourne Research Scholarship from the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne to the first-named author. We would also like to thank the Western Australian Foundation for Deaf Children Incorporated for their financial support of this work.