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Flexer, Carol; And Others – Volta Review, 1993
Comparison of the receptive vocabulary of 24 undergraduate college students with hearing loss to that of 24 peers with normal hearing found that approximately three-fourths of those with hearing loss performed poorly. Vocabulary skills were not found to be associated with degree of hearing loss. (DB)
Descriptors: College Students, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education, Language Skills

Kirk, Karen Iler – Volta Review, 1998
This review describes the theory behind two new measures of spoken word recognition for children with sensory aids, the Lexical and the Multisyllabic Lexical Neighborhood Tests. It then summarizes data concerning the tests' word familiarity, interlist equivalency, and test-retest reliability. Results indicate that deaf children with cochlear…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Children, Cochlear Implants, Cognitive Processes