Table 1.
Participant Demographics
Bilingual Group | N | % Female | Mean Age (SD) | Age Range | Mean Self-Proficiency Reading English (0–4) | Mean Self-Proficiency Reading Language 2 (0–4) | BLP Speaking & Understanding Spoken English (0–6) | BLP Speaking & Understanding Language 2 (0–6) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Deaf ASL-English | 15 | 47 | 29.4 (6.5) | 19 to 39 | 3.67 (.52) | not applicable* | no speech used† | 6.0 (0.0) |
Hearing Chinese-English | 22 | S6 | 19.6 (1.36) | 18 to 23 | 3.55 (.72) | 1.91 (1.38) | 5.45 (1.39) | 4.33 (1.65) |
Hearing Korean-English | 15 | 80 | 19.8 (.94) | 18 to 21 | 3.80 (.41) | 1.82 (.85) | 5.93 (.18) | 3.71 (1.75) |
Hearing Spanish-English | 34 | 76 | 20.2 (1.89) | 18 to 25 | 3.91 (.31) | 2.41 (.94) | 5.85 (.38) | 4.63 (1.24) |
ASL does not have orthography.
This is by subject selection/study design