A community-participatory approach to adapting survey items for deaf individuals and american sign language

Field Methods

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 429-448

  Graybill, Patrick ^a   Aggas, Julia ^a   Dean, Robyn K ^a   Demers, Susan ^b   Finigan, Elizabeth G ^c   Pollard Jr , Robert Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing   (United States)

^c Department of Family Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

American Sign Language; ASL; CBPR; deaf; survey; translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049470486     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X10379201     Document Type: Article

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