Longitudinal Receptive American Sign Language Skills Across a Diverse Deaf Student Body
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Deaf students' receptive and expressive american sign language skills: comparisons and relations.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1081-4159,1465-7325
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enw002