A comparative study of hearing-impaired and normal-hearing young adults--verbal and nonverbal abilities

This report describes the results of a study comparing three groups of hearing-impaired young adults with a group of normal-hearing young adults on various measures of perceptual and memory abilities. Twelve paper-and-pencil tests representing intellectual capacity, closure, association, nonverbal short-term memory, and verbal short-term memory were used as dependent variables. Results show that there was no difference between the four groups of subjects except for tests requiring some verbal facility.