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 . . .