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 . . .