NCCL Sign Language Lab NTID Center on Cognition

NCCL: Sign Language Lab NTID Center on Cognition & Language ASL ASSESSMENT PROJECT FUNDED BY THE NTID OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 2016 – 2019 PETER HAUSER PHD – DIRECTOR OF CENTER ON COGNITION AND LANGUAGE KIM KURZ PHD – DIRECTOR OF SIGN LANGUAGE LABORATORY CORRINE OCCHINO PHD – RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SUSAN RIZZO - RESEARCH PROGRAM COORDINATOR 1

NCCL Sign Language Assessment Team Research Assistant Professor Corrine Occhino Ph. D Research Program Coordinator Susan Rizzo MA; MS Director Center on Cognition and Language Peter Hauser Ph. D Director Sign Language Laboratory Kim Kurz Ph. D NCCL 2 Lab Sign Language

CURRENT POLICY: NTID FACULTY SIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS ASSESSED USING ONE MEASURE NCCL Sign Language Lab

CURRENT GOALS: ➔ DEVELOP NEW ASL PROFICIENCY TESTS FOR ASSESSING SIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS AT NTID ➔ CREATE A BATTERY OF ASSESSMENTS TO TRACK DEVELOPMENT & MONITOR SKILL IMPROVEMENT NCCL Sign Language Lab

Currently Available Assessment Options 1. Classroom Sign Language Assessment (CSLA) 2. Group Communication Observation Tool (GCOT) NCCL 5 Lab Sign Language

New ASL-L 2 Assessments at NTID 1. ASL Comprehension Test (ASL-CT) (Hauser et al. 2016) 2. ASL Discrimination Test (ASL-DT) (Bochner et al. 2015) NCCL 6 Lab Sign Language

Current Project: Assessment Development 1. ASL Online Vocabulary Exam (ASL-OVE) 2. ASL Fingerspelling & Numeral Comprehension (ASL-FAN) 3. ASL Verb Expression Test (ASL-VET) 4. ASL Sentence Repetition Test for Second Language Signers (ASLSRT-L 2) NCCL 7 Lab Sign Language

ASL-OVE (Online Vocabulary Exam) NCCL 8 Lab Sign Language

ASL-OVE (Online Vocabulary Exam) NCCL 9 Lab Sign Language

ASL: Fingerspelling & Numeral Comprehension Test 1967 1976 1993 NCCL 1896 Sign Language Lab 10

ASL-VET (Verb Expression Test ) NCCL Sign Language 11 Lab

ASL- SRT-L 2 (Sentence Repetition) Watch the signed sentence. When the sentence is finished, sign the sentence back exactly as you saw it signed to you. NCCL 12 Lab Sign Language

Creating a Language Dossier NCCL 13 Lab Sign Language

Tracking Your Skills NCCL 14 Lab Sign Language

Questions? THANK YOU! For more information, contact the NCCL ASL Assessment Team: Corrine Occhino cokccl@rit. edu -or. Susan Rizzo sprncp@rit. edu 15