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According to the author of this chapter, experts in the psychological and educational assessment of deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HoH) clients have long recommended the use of nonverbal assessment approaches. In fact, most experts would argue that they are essential tools in the psychological and educational assessment of any D/HoH client. However, these assessment strategies, while necessary, are not sufficient. Emerging low-inference, high-context approaches may provide stronger evidence of positive outcomes for individual (and eventually, groups of) D/HoH clients.
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Braden, J.P. (2017). Best Practices in Assessing Those Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing. In: McCallum, R. (eds) Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50604-3_4
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