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This chapter presents the data related to expressive language functioning for the VL2 Psychometric Toolkit Project. The data were generated using two measures of phonemic fluency, F–A–S and the sign-based analogue 5–1–U developed for this study, and two semantic category fluency tasks, animal and food naming. The latter tasks were administered following both of the phonemic fluency tasks to investigate the impacts of linguistic priming. 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., Witkin, G., Murphy, L. (2012). Measures of Expressive 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_8
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