The Common Phrases Test (Robbins et al, 1998) was developed to assess understanding of familiar phrases spoken in everyday situations. The phrases are declarative statements or questions that contain simple syntactic structures and vocabulary familiar to young profoundly hearing impaired children (i.e., I like ice cream). This is an open-set test and can be administered via audition alone, vision only, or audition plus vision. The child is encouraged to guess and is scored according to number of words correct. There are six lists (A–F) that contain 10 short phrases each.
Performance is scored by the percentage of sentences (N=10) and key words (N=20) correctly understood. Because the phrases are similar, the child must repeat the entire sentence to receive credit for the complete sentence. Key words are underlined.
Robbins AM, Renshaw JJ, Osberger MJ. Common Phrases Test. Indianapolis, Ind: University School of Medicine; 1988.
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