title: Visual constructive and visual-motor skills in deaf native signers.
abstract: Visual constructive and visual-motor skills in the deaf population were investigated by comparing performance of deaf native signers (n=20) to that of hearing nonsigners (n=20) on the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test, Wechsler Memory Scale Visual Reproduction subtest, and Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Paper Folding and Cutting subtest. Deaf signers were found to perform similarly to hearing controls, suggesting that these tests are valid assessment instruments to use with deaf individuals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Research and Teacher Education, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623-5604, USA. peter.hauser@rit.edu
authors.forename: Peter C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Hauser
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Matthew W G
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Dye
authors.forename: Daphne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bavelier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003638:Deafness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012813:Sign Language; D013195:Stanford-Binet Test