Abstract: Raven's Standard Progressive Martrices has been proved to be a goodnon-verbal intelligence scale. This study used Raven's Stand-ard Progres-sive Matrices to measure the intelligence of deaf children, in which thesample was selected from school for the deaf children in Hubei province,(aged from 9 to 17). The results show that: 1) intelligence of the deaf-mute children develope as they grow up; 2)the intelligence level of thedeaf children is lower than that of normal children in cities in China.The reasons may be due to their physiological defects, conditions of theirsocial and living enviroments and educational conditions; 3) there is nodifference in intelligence developemental level between deaf children whohave a little sound hearing ability and those who have no ability to hear;4)Difficulty, discrimination, reliability and validity tests show that thisscale is reliable and effective. Meaning that this scale is suitable for mea-suring the intelligence of deaf children.

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