BACKGROUND. Deafness is considered by many to be one of the most handicapping of physical defects. Helen Keller often referred to her deafness as a much greater handicap than her blindness. The problem does not appear to be so much the physical nature . . .

The findings show that the Pastoral Statement, in the two years since its publication, has had very little affect on the local dioceses ministry in the area of the handicapped for many reasons not the least of which being the lack of awareness of the . . .

INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE. Currently, better and more complex job opportunities are opening up for competent deaf men arid women. 'I'hese jobs, more often than not, bring the deaf person into constant contact with his hearing co-workers. The deaf perso . . .

This project paper concerns itself with services for adult deaf clients who are multiply handicapped. Many of these individuals need services which are pre-vocational in nature, prior to acceptance by rehabilitation agencies. Emphasis is placed on ser . . .

The purpose of this project was to examine the factors which would make possible to integrate deaf-blind students in the secondary school, primarily in the prevocational and vocational areas. The creation and findings of such a study could open the do . . .

This survey discusses the attitudes of parents of deaf children enrolled at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind, Honolulu, Hawaii, and deaf high school graduates registered as full-time undergraduates and graduate students at California State . . .

"Words, words, words, I'm so sick of words!" This lament of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady could very well be that of a deaf man attending night classes at the Reseda Adult School in Los Angeles, California; for one of the greatest difficulties exper . . .

Mccay Vernon states that the top ten percent of deaf graduates in colleges go into teaching while the same percentile for normal graduates is ranked at fifty percent. There are many inferences one could draw from this statement. For the purpose of thi . . .

Two male and three female, so, all competent interpreters for the deaf currently employed at San Fernando Valley State College, were subjected to experimental testing designed to discover how long an interpreter for the deaf can interpret before fatig . . .

In preparation for this paper the author sent questionnaires to private and public mental health facilities in every state. Subsequent responses confirmed what had already been widely accepted: that specialized services to deaf mental patients do not . . .

For the past two years, an educational revolution has been in progress at the North Carolina School for the Deaf. Like "the shot heard 'round the world", this revolution began with a single, simple act; the addition of the use of fingerspelling to sup . . .

The first legislation for the education of all handicapped children passed by the 9lst Congress, and signed by President Richard M. Nixon on August 20, 1969, created a National Center on Educational Media and Material for the Handicapped. The act auth . . .

Minimal information concerning the integration of hearing impaired students at the secondary level exists. However, secondary programs are unfolding at a rapid rate as more and more students already mainstreamed in the lower grades become older and mo . . .

This project is concerned with the telephone problems of deaf people, specifically, their unemployment or underemployment due to their inability to use the telephone on-the-job. Deaf people need telephone skills to enable them to compete for and maint . . .

In this paper the writer has considered the many problems confronting grassroots deaf people who desire to establish an advocacy program. In the past, there has been a tendency for some individuals to adopt a simplistic view of this problem and brush . . .

Impaired hearing is considered to be the greatest single handicapping condition in the nation with some 15-18,000,000 Americans affected. Among these hearing impaired persons, about 450,000 to 550,000 are estimated to be deaf. In regard to occurrence . . .

This project is an account of the program developed at Park Oaks School in Ventura County, California to involve volunteer student aides in the classroom and school activities of the deaf-blind children. The volunteer student aid program was developed . . .

This paper is an attempt to synthesize the existing knowledge and practices of audiologists and to assess the applicability of this field to the special problems of the deaf. In an effort to provide a frame of reference and to relate certain concepts, . . .

Although the issue of teacher burnout had been recognized by most professionals in the areas of the deaf-multiply handicapped, blind-multiply handicapped, and deaf-blind, no studies had been done to define the problem and its causes. This exploratory . . .

The purpose of this study was to gather data relevant to gaining insight into the attitudes, practices, and interests of secondary teachers of the deaf as they relate to the utilization of language based curriculum. A questionnaire was developed and d . . .