Inventario para una evaluación global de las principales competencias lingüísticas de la lengua de signos española

Abstract

There are several tools for assessing oral language acquisition which can be adapted quite easily to deaf students, but there are few tools to assess the extent of acquisition of the Spanish sign language (LSE). In this regard, the need for more specific assessments about the extent of acquisition of the LSE is increasing.The aim of this paper was to design and validate an assessment tool of communicative skills in LSE that will allow us to know the level of competence of deaf students in different linguistic aspects, in order to identify potential difficulties in the acquisition of this language and to account the learning process of the LSE.The inventory serves to evaluate in a discriminative manner basic language skills of LSE. It would therefore be useful for the early ages of the school years or the beginning of the acquisition of this language.Our results show that the inventory is sensible to variables that have traditionally been correlated with the improvement of linguistic aspects. The variables that are more related to the development of language skills in LSE are the type of education and academic level.