Development of the Japanese GAEL Tests for the hearing-impaired children

许多听力受损儿童机构正在使用为没有听力问题的儿童开发的测试。有人说，应该根据听障儿童的独特特点制定语言评估测试。因此，作者构建了日语GAEL测试，这是美国中央聋人学院(CID)开发的GAEL测试(引出语言的语法分析)的日语版本。日语盖尔测试包括根据孩子的年龄进行的分测试。研究结果表明：(1)单独进行测验时，儿童能够集中注意力进行测验。(2)由于测试是以对话方式进行的，管理员可以在不受听障儿童感知和发音不良影响的情况下对能力进行评估。(3)可以对词汇和语法知识进行评估。

Many institutes for hearing-impaired children are using tests that are developed for children with no hearing problems. It has been said that a language assessment test should be developed according to the unique characteristics of hearing-impaired children. As a result, the author constructed a Japanese GAEL Test, which is a Japanese version of the GAEL TEST (Grammatical Analysis of Elicited Language) that was developed at the Central Institute for the Deaf(CID) in America. The Japanese GAEL Test consists of subtests according to the age of the children. The follwing results were found : (1)The children could concentrate their attention on the test when the test was adminisrated individually. (2)The administrator could assess the abilities without being influenced by the poor perception and pronunciation of the hearing-impaired children because the test was carried out in a conversational style. (3)Vocabulary and grammatical knowledge could be assessed.