Assessing deaf and hearing children's communication in Brazil

▶ The study presents a protocol for assessing hearing and deaf pre-school children's communicative abilities. ▶ Deaf children have communication delays, independent of choice of language and modality. ▶ The protocol is comprehensive and innovative, including assessments by parent, SLT, and interpreter. ▶ The protocol is modality-free, enabling its use with the full range of deaf children including those at a pre-linguistic stage.