The teachers for the deaf have long been troubled with the problem how to measure the intelligence of the deaf children. It provides a special difficulty to measure the intelligence of such children, especially at the beginning of their school experience.
Although many tests of intelligence have been standardized on hearing children, only a very few have been tried to apply to the deaf. Even in such cases, the norms for the hearing children have been uncritically used, which fact affords a serious disadvantage to the deaf. The difficulty in testing the deaf consists in the pantomimed instruction, which requires the teachers to expend a great deal of time and energy in the test situation. Fortunately there is a test especially designed to solve this difficulty. That is the Nebraska test of learning aptitude. The test has given the writer a great deal of suggestion. The writer here presents a new individual test for the deaf. It consists of the following subtests.
1). Memory of coloured objects.
2). Bead string
3). Pictorial association
4). Pictorial analogy
5). Memory of digits
6). Recognition of figures
7). Cube construction
8). Cube puzzle
9). Paper folding
10). Completion of pictures.
