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A Language-Independent Measure of Communicative Competence for Deaf Adolescents & Adults
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 57, Winter 1987
- pp. 353-370
- 10.1353/sls.1987.0011
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We present a conversation/interview measure for evaluating the communicative competence of deaf adolescents and adults. We also describe (a) the rationale behind its development; (b) its independence, by design, of the subjects language variety, channel, or intemingling of the two; and (c) its use in a study of 40 deaf adolescents, the findings of which support the reliability and validity of this “language-fair” measure of communicative competence.