Post-secondary educational opportunities for hearing impaired people in the United States are limited in quantity and scope. There are presently three institutions functioning to educate hearing-impaired people eat the undergraduate college level on a . . .

Most, if not all, state vocational rehabilitation agencies have incorporated the use of Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf (RCD's). California has 41 such counselors who serve those hearing-impaired people who rely on sign language primarily to co . . .

Statement of the Problem. The problem is the need for a parent education program to serve Spanish-American parents of children enrolled in special education programs. Background of the Problem. Registration day for enrollment into the program serving . . .

I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM One of the most critical problems facing education today is the exedus of teachers from the classroom. The movement of teachers away from the profession is a waste of human effort and financial expenditure. For school board . . .

THE NEED FOR LEARNING CENTERS. When Charles Silberman's book, Crisis in the Classroom, dramatically burst upon the American scene in August, 1971, American educators began to take a serious look at their schools, their teachers, their curricula and th . . .

The problem of underemployment of the deaf has led me to investigate the career opportunities in the para medical field. I have limited myself to this area primarily because the prediction is that medicine and the allied medical fields will be employi . . .

There exists minimal information concerning Independent Living Skills for young adults who are deaf. The need for practical and comprehensive educational programs dealing specifically with the skills required for independent living has long existed. T . . .

The purpose of this project is to present in broad perspective the conditions of the handicapped in relationship to society, the changes in those conditions in recent years (mainly through litigation efforts), and the challenges and possibilities of f . . .

The welfare Planning Council of Los Angeles in a Survey and Recommendations for a System to Deliver Services to those vocationally handicapped by Communication Disorders" point out the great need for services in the Los Angeles area. The report is fil . . .

This report is the collective viewpoints expressed by deaf educational leaders on a questionnaire prepared to gain information about the education of the deaf from a select group of respondents. Questions were those raised during the Leadership Traini . . .

Progression from high school to postsecondary education involves an orientation in some shape or form. This is true for deaf students equally as much as for their hearing peers. Frequently, such orientations do not wholly meet the needs of deaf studen . . .

This graduate project was undertaken with the intent of finding out what if any relationship there was between the employment of deaf persons and postsecondary programs attended. Information for the project was collected from vocational trade schools, . . .

In the spring of 1968, a group of graduate students in the Leadership Training Program in the Area of the Deaf at San Fernando Valley State College undertook a project concerned with community services for deaf persons. After surveying the needs of th . . .

Statement of Need. As a result of a study of multi-handicapped, deaf-blind parent programs in California, conducted by Lonna Anderson in 1970, it was discovered that there were no formalized programs for the education of parents of deaf-blind multiply . . .

INTRODUCTION It is always of interest to note that Alexander Graham Bell was a teacher of the deaf and that during the course of his experiments to construct a device to amplify sounds for his deaf' pupils, he invented the telephone. And, ironically, . . .

Man is communicative. He uses gestures, writings, and speaking in order to express his flow of thoughts. He lives and speaks in a planet of words. What man has, what man does, and what man is depends to a large degree on his ability to use words. The . . .

The purpose of this graduate project was to investigate classroom placement of the multiply handicapped hearing impaired student. In limiting this study, an exploratory investigation of schools for the hearing impaired was conducted to compare how the . . .

It was the purpose of this study to determine the qualities of leadership desired by a hearing impaired person and compare them with those desired by a hearing person. The writer developed a questionnaire by utilizing the "three-skills" approach of Ka . . .

Two deaf candidates were first admitted to the Leadership Training Program in the Area of the Deaf in 1964 and since then there has been an average of five deaf participants in each class. Of a total of 102 graduates who have completed the training si . . .

This project supports the method of achieving the principle of normalization through community group living versus institutional living for deaf-blind individuals. Various studies imply more normalized living patterns are established through such form . . .

The general purpose of this study was to determine if burnout existed among Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf within the state of California. A questionnaire was mailed out to thirty-eight Rehabilitation Counselors with the Deaf and there was a 7 . . .

Little attention has been directed in educational research to the identification of administrative problems in residential educational programs for deaf children. In light of current demands by consumers for program excellence the identification of ke . . .

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the involvement of the former NLTPers in the deaf community after completing their training program at CSUN. A questionnaire was developed and mailed to all NLTP graduate s to determine whether they became mo . . .

This project paper discusses a search into the educational and family backgrounds of profoundly and prelingually deaf students attending California State University at Northridge during the Spring semester of 1977, in an attempt to locate some of the . . .

This study explored the relationship between Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf and the job placement services and techniques available to deaf persons in the state of California. A review of literature regarding the occupational status of deaf ad . . .

The need for language is basic to everyday existence. At home, in business, at school, and in social interaction there must always be communication. Nowhere, perhaps, is such a need more keenly felt than among people who are deaf. Lack of adequate lan . . .

Advanced technology (computer, space hardware) can be a powerful tool for instructing the multihandicapped. The computer can be utilized as either an instructional or prosthetic device. Significant reduction in price makes the microcomputer available . . .

This paper discusses some of the factors associated with providing driver's education, training, and licensing to hearing-impaired students enrolled in our nation's educational system. The role that federal, state, and local agencies have in the area . . .

The purpose of this project was to identify areas wherein parents of students who attended California State University, Northridge, concentrated to enable their hearing-impaired child to compete alongside of hearing students in a mainstreamed academic . . .

The telephone has long been a foe for dear persons. However, the technological explosion in America within the last decade has not passed up the opportunity of developing ways for the def to use the phone. Smith, Berlje, & Simpson (1966) have expertly . . .

This paper attempts to develop a rationale for the development of equal access to telephone communications for people who cannot use the present telephone system without specially adapted TTY equipment. The author has traced the development of various . . .

Classification of handicapped children by handicapping condition is virtually a given in all areas of special education. With federal directives to provide handicapped children with educational programs in the "Least Restrictive Environment" reevaluat . . .

The purpose of this graduate project was to: (1) ascertain the present status of: a) oral public speaking courses for the hearing impaired adult. b) speech assessment tools used with hearing impaired adults. c) techniques utilized to improve/develop p . . .

This paper discusses the findings of personal attitudes and projected attitudes of parents of nonhandicapped children toward the integration process underway at their nonhandicapped children's elementary school. The attitudes of all parents have a pro . . .

The Office of Demographic Studies at Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C. reports an increasing number of Multiply Handicapped Deaf Children in the United States. Progress in medical sciences has accounted for the fact that many children who would ha . . .

Housing opportunities for the deaf-blind are limited to traditional alternatives such as resident facilities of sheltered workshops, nursing homes or homes of parents or siblings. Basic to the problem of housing for the deaf-blind is the fact that alt . . .

A study of Grade Point Averages recently completed by CSD has shown that the hearing-impaired students at CSUN have achieved at the same levels as the general university student population. Stated another way, hearing-impaired students show the normal . . .

All deaf students enrolled at California State University, Northridge are registered in courses along with their hearing peers. Academic support services are provided for these students by Campus Services for the Deaf, a sub-unit of the Center on Deaf . . .

The purpose of this project is to present a profile on programs for learning disabled-deaf presently offered in residential schools for the deaf throughout the United States. Failing to identify and provide appropriate educational programs for the lea . . .

Foreword. The purpose of this independent study is an effort to present a constructive persuasion on why there ls a need for an organization of supervising teachers within the framework of the Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf. . . .

Although for many years the blind community has accepted responsibility for the rehabilitation of deaf persons sustaining severe visual loss in adulthood, it has been the least prepared to deal with the most devastating aspect of the disability, commu . . .

Any number of authorities have in recent years recommended that parents of hearing handicapped children seek out the advice and assistance of deaf adults as they strive to meet the challenge of providing their child with the best possible upbringing. . . .

Over the last ten years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of services available to the deaf and the deaf-blind multi-handicapped in the Australian state of South Australia. This graduate project collates the relevant current informatio . . .

Preventing failure in the school setting is an art with skills and procedures all its own. It is an art often wished for, sometimes achieved, but seldom cultivated. It would appear that the American educational system is being forced by very rapidly d . . .

It all began in the spring of 1963 when the trainees in the Leadership Training Program met with the deaf congregation of the First Baptist Church of Van Nuys and asked these people, in effect, "What can we do during the next few months we are here in . . .

In the following pages the reader will be touring a very obscure geographical area in the Pacific, known as Micronesia, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and looking at what the people on one of the islands in the area think about the hand . . .

In order to determine the status of ~he deaf in Roman law it is necessary to first distinguish as to the rights and privileges granted to the different classes at various periods of Roman history. During the first two centuries of the Empire the statu . . .

The primary purpose of this paper is to propose a community referral service for deaf persons who need help from appropriate health, welfare, and/or recreational services, and to provide consultation on community resources and referral policies to ind . . .

This report is a preliminary study to find information on the forms of housing arrangements presently existing in the Omaha area. The method of approach decided upon was one based upon the basic concept of needs assessments and priority of the needs a . . .

This study dealt with how Rehabilitation Counselors with the Deaf (RCDs) in California ranked in order of priority the subcomponents of their daily activity. The study also investigated the possibility of variance between hearing and hearing-impaired . . .

The purpose of this study is two-fold. The first is to fill the need for information to ascertain the numbers, distribution, and characteristics of the black deaf adults in the Los Angeles County area. This is needed in planning comprehensive programs . . .

By means of mailed questionnaires, educators training teachers of the hearing impaired in the United States were surveyed. Three types of information were gathered: 1) a professional description of teacher educators of the hearing impaired; 2) a descr . . .

The purpose of this study was the development of suitable guidelines for establishing pre-vocational programs in an educational setting. The research information utilized for this study was elicited from parents, teachers, para-professionals, and voca . . .

Project P.L.A.Y. (Preferred Leisure time Activities of Deaf-Blind Youth) was undertaken as a Master's Thesis for completion of the National Leadership Training Program in the Area of the Deaf-Blind from California State University, Northridge. It has . . .

The Key for providing better learning experiences for our deaf children is through supervisors and leadership. This manual has been designed to meet the needs of the supervisor in helping provide useful ideas and techniques for "key" problems arising . . .

The objective of this study is to learn some of the effects of one integrated college program on its hearing-impaired student participants in terms of: (1) academic achievement, (2) social growth and (3) personal growth; given a college setting which . . .

Included herein is a multi-faceted plan for the social adjustment of deaf emotionally/behaviorally disturbed adolescents. The estimates of hearing-impaired emotionally disturbed children and families needing these services range between 165 to 1,275 i . . .

The purpose of this project was to determine whether a competencybased instructional program can be effectively evaluated by using a discrepancy approach in assessing course content as it relates to competency development.

The expressed purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which state certification requirements coincide with the certification standards of the Council on Education of the Deaf (C.E.D). A historical review of teacher certification standards . . .

THE PROBLEM. Statement of the problem. The problem is to develop a plan to initiate a more comprehensive program of vocational, educational and social services within a school for the deaf to serve all segments of the deaf population in Rhode Island a . . .

The intent of this paper will be to review current information on the HIDD population, to discuss the difficulties involved in attempting to provide services to them, to look at the role of Independent Living Services in meeting their varying needs, a . . .

Since the founding of the first school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut in 1817 by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, there have been numerous schools for the dear established all over the United States of America. The purpose of the schools for the deaf . . .

�Please! Must we drive so far?� That was the plaintive cry of those who had to drive for or fifty miles one way to attend adult education classes for the deaf either at Reseda Ault School or at San Fernando Valley State College. Both schools lie in th . . .

The purpose of this project is to develop guidelines for Political Action for the Deaf. The deaf are not involved in Political Action at any level. Basically, they are reluctant to become involved because of communication problems. Thus, most of them . . .

This study was an investigation of potential impact variables affecting the performance of first-year deaf students at California State University, Northridge. To be included in the project, a student had to be a full-time student with freshman status . . .

Conversations with professional educators indicate that there is a dearth of simple readable materials for parents of deaf children to use. Conversations with parents also confirms this. A conversation with Jacqueline z. Mendelsohn, Executive Director . . .

Proper treatment and response to hearing impairment can greatly mitigate the handicapping effects of this condition. Many important treatment services beyond the traditional educational and vocational services, can be gained through the myriad of comm . . .

The study of American Sign Language (ASL) is a recent phenomenon. As a result, relatively abundant information has not been explored by public residential school administrators despite the declaration that American Sign Language is now fully recognize . . .

The principal objective of this graduate project was to produce three 'packages' of material that would satisfy needs from different areas and would be useful immediately upon the writer's return to his home in Australia. The first is a paper that exa . . .

This study attempted to evaluate the relevance of the rehabilitation services to the deaf as perceived by the deaf themselves. The relevance of rehabilitation services for the deaf was primarily based on (1) the quality and the quantity of process of . . .

This paper discusses the availability of television production time and techniques of doing programming specifically for deaf audiences. With the increasing interest in serving the needs of deaf television viewers, there is a need for people to be inv . . .

INTRODUCTION. "In union there is strength� may be an old saying but it is still true today. An organization of the deaf cannot be effective unless it has a very large membership which supplies the finances and manpower needed for the realization of it . . .

Incentive for this project grew out of the knowledge that seven teacher preparation programs are recruiting deaf trainees for their programs. The seven training programs are Ball State University, Indiana; California State University, Northridge; Gall . . .

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC RELATIONS. Literature of the past several years has repeatedly stressed the poor image that deaf have in the eyes of the hearing public. Too often it has appeared that this poor public image was something that was a defe . . .

This study of Chicano families with deaf children was made for the purpose of exploring their feelings, attitudes, and experiences in acquiring meaningful services from social, educational, and vocational agencies.

The purpose of this study is to review the role of Vocational Rehabilitation in serving the deaf. In order to achieve an understanding of the programs for the deaf, we must look at Vocational Rehabilitation subjectively, as to its philosophies, its ob . . .

This paper emphasizes the need for more adequate preparation programs for training teachers of multiply handicapped deaf children. These children represent severe educational problems and their numbers are shown to be steadily increasing. It is hypoth . . .

Since I have been away from the secondary classes for the deaf, have become increasingly aware of changes that I would like to see made in the program here in Los Angeles. With regard to the operation of the program itself, probably the changes needed . . .

Education and rehabilitation of the deaf in Nepal, India,the Philippines, Korea and Japan. As confirmed by research for this paper, very little has been published about the deaf in countries around the world. This paper has been written to present an . . .

Parent education is the first step in the education of the multiply handicapped child" Professional Literature has unequivocally stated the need for such programs. �Parental orientation to the problems of deafness is therefore of particular importance . . .

PRELIMIEARY STRUCTURING PREFACE: By studying existing courses of study in manual communication, holding conferences with recognized experts in sign language, covering all available literature on the subject of teaching of sign language, participating . . .

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM. The purpose of this project is to propose guidelines which will assist large area-small population states in establishing a comprehensive state master plan for the education of the hearing-impaired. JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROBL . . .

Good guidance should exist in a school for the deaf regardless of the f act that guidance is or is not in the school program by name. In a school where classes are no larger than 10 pupils, a teacher should know the needs of each individual child, be . . .

This project is a discussion of how to solve the problems of deaf adults by having a Community Service Center for the deaf. This center will be in a good position to overcome the shortcomings faced by the adult deaf community. This paper will also dis . . .

The number of multihandicapped deaf (MHD) children is increasing and is expected to continue at a rate that will be of concern to educators and individuals working with the deaf until the end of the century. Although this concern is now past the stage . . .

This project was conceived because of the lack of guidelines and information for parents who have handicapped children. The parents of the handicapped need to be informed in order to be effective in helping their children. This handbook was written to . . .

The purpose of this project is to compare and contrast the intellectual, emotional and social growth of hearing impaired students who completed their secondary education in hearing high schools with and without supportive services. The project is inte . . .

Motivation for this project grew out of the knowledge that many of the teacher training programs (which prepare teachers of the deaf or hearing-impaired) across the United States have refused to admit any hearing-impaired persons into their programs. . . .

How many handicapped children are in Nigeria today? How many of these are presently receiving free appropriate public education? How many are not? Who were the moving spirits behind the initial efforts of education of handicapped children in Nigeria? . . .

Deaf junior high school and senior high school students in many schools and programs for the deaf across the nation are not having adequate guidance services made available to them. The deaf adolescent i s in need (on at least an equal level with hear . . .

With the increasing number of day-class programs, effective evaluation of teachers of the deaf becomes a major concern. Many of the teachers of the deaf in day-class programs are evaluated by a regular education principal who has no knowledge of deafn . . .

Through the use of a survey sent to sixty-four (64) Schools for the Deaf throughout the United States, information was collected from thirty-nine (39) of them related to the existence of a formal written agreement between them and their respective Sta . . .

In brief, this project will attempt to give teachers of deaf-blind children, specifically those in the New England Region, concrete information about what materials and resources are available to them. The primary source for these resources is the New . . .

This study was undertaken to compare the model of English presented by teachers' Simultaneous Communication in a school with a written communication policy which includes a clearly defined sign language system to be used, consistent evaluation, and on . . .

This paper discusses the history of education in Ponape School District under Spain, Japan and the United States. Under German administration education in Ponape School District stressed economic and community development. When the Japanese took contr . . .

It has long been recognized that the educational and occupational attainment of the deaf have been, and continue to be, significantly below the national averages. The enactment of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Amended 1978) and the Education �or All . . .

Educational programming and career needs of deaf multihandicapped students are important concerns of parents, teachers, and administrators alike. Appropriate planning, designed to provide meaningful opportunities aimed at enabling these students to pa . . .

The purpose of this paper is to give a brief history of the development of the residential school for the deaf in the United States.

This paper discusses the education of handicapped students in American Samoa, emphasizing some unique and important aspects of special education in American Samoa. Samoan culture influences the education of handicapped children in American Samoa. Perh . . .

Since 1962 when the Leadership Training Program had its beginning, participants have been receiving the same stipend grant amount. Although the cost of living has been steadily on the rise the stipend has not changed. No solution to this unfortunate s . . .