The development of the sign language interpreter system in the United States is traced to its informal and formal origins. It follows the progress in the field of interpreting up to the present and incorporates the establishment and operation of the N . . .

Intended for vocational education administrators and educators, this handbook provides information concerning deafness and suggestions for designing, implementing, and evaluating programs for hearing impaired students who are being mainstreamed into t . . .

Driver and traffic safety education literature is abundant in some areas and lacking in other aspects of the subject field. Most of the material is prepared for student use with very little for teacher use. The writer found this especially true when h . . .

A questionnaire was distributed to working interpreters for the deaf in California to survey their perceptions of their role, ethics, and the consumers of their services. Questions were included to get information related to training, length of work a . . .

In programs across the United States, teachers of low-functioning, multiply-handicapped individuals have few materials for Sex Education curricula to apply in the areas of masturbation and menstruation. At the current time, teachers are pulling from t . . .

This paper discusses the plight of the hearing-impaired/deaf person who applies for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). It is indicated that there is a communications problem between those who apply for SSI and the Social Security Administration (SSA) . . .

The purpose of this project was to collect data on the number of trained personnel with hearing and visual impairments, respectively, in schools, centers, and programs serving the deaf-blind. Other factors taken into consideration were whether the hea . . .

Since the rubella epidemic of 1964-1965, the school age deaf-blind population in the United States has undergone an alarming increase. Presently in the United States, there are approximately 5,587 deaf-blind children under the age of 21. These childre . . .

The Education for ' All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (PL 94-142) has called for a national commitment to educating the handicapped in the least restrictive environment. This has been interpreted by some to mean meeting the special needs of all han . . .

With this project I propose to show that there are a surprising number of highly intelligent, determined deaf blind men and women who have been achieving and who will continue to achieve. I hope to show how they did it, and how others, with proper ass . . .