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"Communication scores were examined for the deaf patients in a inpatient
facility using a language rating scale. Scores indicated that 75% of
participants fell into the nonfluent range of communication. 28% were
in the grossly impaired range and 46.9% fell in the functional, but
nonfluent range. Of the 25% of the participants who scored in the
fluent range, the majority of these fell into the classification of
fluent English (18.8%). One participant (1.6%) was found to be fluent
in ASL only. Two participants were fluent in both ASL and English.



The implications of this high rate of language impoverishment and
language dysfluency include that they may contribute to the misdiagnosis
of though disorder by clinicians unfamiliar with this issue. They are
also very likely to be a strong factor in the social skill deficits and
behavioral problems found in the deaf inpatient population."



Demographics, Psychiatric Diagnoses, and Other Characteristics of North
American Deaf and Hard of Hearing Inpatients

Patricia A Black and Neil S. Glickman

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

11:3 Summer 2006





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