Table 1.
Means for participant characteristics. Standard deviations are given in parentheses.
Age (years) | Age of ASL exposure | ASL self-rating a | English self-rating a | Years of education | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Early ASL-English bilinguals (N = 18) | 27 (6) | birth | 6.4 (0.8) | 6.8 (0.6) | 16.2 (2.8) |
Late ASL-English bilinguals (N = 20) | 36 (10) | 16.4 (7.0) | 5.7 (0.8) | 7.0 (0.0) | 17.7 (2.7) |
Based on a scale of 1–7 (1 = “not fluent” and 7 = “very fluent”)