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The Relationship of Non-Verbal Intelligence Measures to Academic Achievement among Deaf Adolescents.
Paal, Nicholaus; And Others – Journal of Rehabilitation of the Deaf, 1988
The study examined the correlations between academic achievement and scores on the Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) Performance Scale, with 35 deaf high school students. Results validated the use of the WAIS-R as a predictor of academic achievement for this population. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Deafness, High Schools, Intelligence Tests
