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 . . .