ABSTRACT
Explorations of deaf students' language and communication development have either focused on very early language and communication development (Moores, 1996), or English grammatical development during school-age years (McAnally, Rose, &Quigley, 1987; Moores, 1996). Very few studies have looked at the quality of the face-to-face communication that deaf students possess or have access to in spoken English (Wood, Wood, Griffiths, <SLHowarth, 1986), simultaneous communication (SC; Akamatsu & Stewart, 1992), and American Sign Language (ASL). In this chapter, we describe the development and use of a Conversational Proficiency Interview that we used for research purposes, and suggest clinical and educational uses for this interview.
