Language-comprehension skills, such as vocabulary knowledge, syntactic abilities, and text comprehension, have found to be important skills particularly in bilingual contexts as a foundation in the development of literacy skills in a second language. Because there is no assessment in place that taps deaf children’s comprehension of BSL texts through literal and inferential dimensions, this project will first develop a new BSL comprehension task and then explore the relationship between language-comprehension skills in British Sign Language (BSL) as a first language, and the relationship between BSL text comprehension skills and English text comprehension skills.