An adapted version of the Northwest Syntax Screening Test (NSST), substituting objects for line drawings, was devised to evaluate the expressive language of visually impaired children. Twenty children, ten visually impaired and ten without impairments, were presented both the Adapted NSST and the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory (CELI), which employs sentence repetition rather than visual stimuli. Results indicated significant positive correlation between scores obtained on the Adapted NSST and the CELI, suggesting that Adapted NSST may be a comparable test to administer to visually impaired children.
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