The Assessment of Written Phrasal Constructs and Grammar of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students with Varying Expressive Language Abilities

Table 5

Mean, standard deviation (SD), and minimum and maximum for total number of words and unique vocabulary words for the beginning, middle, and end of the year writing samples by language group.

	Beginning	Middle	End
	Mean (SD); min–max	Mean (SD); min–max	Mean (SD); min–max
Total words
English (13)	91 (99); 17–365	100 (63); 46–239	156 (101); 37–356
Bilingual (9)	251 (127); 43–409	183 (88); 80–356	381 (290); 131–970
LDL (7)	10 (6); 3–18	81 (62); 14–176	50 (25); 18–91
All students (29)	122 (133); 3–409	121 (81); 14–356	200 (214); 18–970
Unique vocabulary words
English (13)	49 (40); 15–153	55 (24); 29–110	73 (38); 28–157
ASL (9)	114 (49); 28–170	94 (38); 50–171	155 (88); 68–310
Language delayed (7)	10 (6); 3–17	47 (27); 12–88	32 (14); 17–58
All students (29)	60 (55); 3–170	65 (35); 12–171	89 (72); 17–310