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- Creator:
- Sallop, Marvin B.
- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to acquaint the reader with the findings of Sign language Linguistics, to present in perspective, some of the descriptive elements of American Sign Language, and to offer suggestion as to how the discoveries of Sign Language grammar may be utilized by the classroom teacher to help develop a linguistic proficiency in Standard English with his students.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Tomikawa, Tetsuji
- Description:
- This paper investigated a major problem confronting deaf would-be graduate students: The Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Two related topics were included: special graduate admission policies with regard to minority and handicapped students, and Self-Evaluation reports on Admission as required by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The purposes of the study were to see whether the GRE is valid for handicapped students (including deaf students), whether universities have special graduate admission policies for handicapped students, and whether there is a difference in attitude toward handicapped students between universities which are familiar with then and those which are not. The information was gathered by a review of related literature, and from replies of 20 universities to letters asking for an explanation of any special graduate admission policies for minority or handicapped students, and from Self-Evaluation reports submitted by 12 of the universities. Major conclusion of this study are (1) the GRE is not valid for handicapped or minority students; (2) graduate admission policies differ, with sane universities not requiring the GRF. , others requiring it but not having clear "cut-off" points; and (3) universities unfamiliar with handicapped students tend to write general self-evaluations and have inadequate supporting services while the opposite was true for those familiar with handicapped students.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Spees, Marsha J.
- Description:
- Although sign language interpreters have long been used as facilitators of communication between the deaf and hearing, only within the past twenty years has the use of interpreters become a formal part of the educational system. School districts employ interpreters for mainstreaming hearing impaired students into classes with their hearing peers. Past research has focused on the interpreter at the post-secondary level, with little information related to interpreting at the elementary level in education. This project addresses two issues at the elementary level, procedures for successful student use of an interpreter in the mainstream and interpretive consumer education for all Total Communication hearing impaired students. The project discusses interpreter use as both an educational goal for students and as a process used to access education in a regular classroom. The project describes the development of a "Guideline for the use of Interpreters in Education of the Hearing Impaired at the Elementary Level.'' The guideline is included in the project.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Kaufman, Gordon L.
- Description:
- This paper presents a comparative study of self-concept in deaf students with deaf parents as opposed to deaf students with hearing parents. The students involved in the study were of junior high and senior high levels at the American School for the Deaf, Hartford, Connecticut, and the California State School for the Deaf, Riverside. The general hypothesis was that deaf students with deaf parents would have a better self-concept than deaf students with hearing parents. A questionnaire was designed to measure self-concept in the following sub-scale areas: (1) school, (2) family, (3) self, (4) friends, and (5) future. A secondary purpose of this paper was to evaluate whether or not the rank order within the family seemed to effect the self-concept of the deaf child. A total of 116 student questionnaires were analyzed; 29 students with deaf parents vs. 87 students with hearing parents. The 29 students with deaf parents compiled the total number within that grouping, while the 87 students with hearing parents were selected from a random sampling. Of the five sub-scales evaluated by an analysis of variance, only school and self displayed no significant difference between the two student groups. Significant difference was found in family, friends, and future. Overall, students with deaf parents had higher self-concept scores. Further analysis showed that variables such as sex, school, grade, age, SES (social-economic status) of parents, and birth order had no significant influence on their self-concept.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Kopchick, Eleanor Hobbs
- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to present a profile on severe to profound multihandicapped deaf students presently being served in various programs for the deaf throughout the United States. Public Law 94- 142 mandates rights guaranteed to all handicapped children, including those whose disabilities are present in severe to profound ranges of severity. It is important, therefore, that those involved in the education of multihandicapped deaf children come to terms with a clear definition of the population for whom services are intended. A questionnaire was developed in order to collect information on: the percentage of multihandicapped deaf students within the total deaf student population; the primary multihandicapping conditions in addition to deafness; and definitions of multihandicapping conditions sub-classified according to severe to profound ranges of disability. Questionnaires were sent to one hundred and sixteen programs serving deaf students throughout the United States. The findings revealed that more than twenty percent of the deaf students identified are multihandicapped. Fiftyseven percent of those students are multihandicapped to an extent that is greater than mild to moderate in degrees of severity. This project revealed that there still is not a common terminology of the characteristics of the severe to profound multihandicapped deaf student population. Professionals involved in providing programs and services for this population need to develop a clearer understanding of these handicapping conditions in order that student needs can be successfully met.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Henderson, Malcolm T.
- Description:
- 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 the most are in the area of supervision and coordination of the entire program. At present there is but a single coordinator charged with the responsibility of administering the secondary program for the deaf located in six different facilities scattered throughout the district. In addition to this, there are a few classes in elementary schools and the entire itinerant lipreading instruction program that fall under her direct jurisdiction. Clearly this person is over - loaded with responsibilities, so that the quality of her work is not at all what she would wish it to be. I would like to see the board create the position of supervising teacher of the secondary classes for the deaf. The person in this position could take over a major part of the load that is now on th~ shoulders of the coordinator. This person would supervise the work of all the special secondary teachers of the deaf, coordinate curricula, administer achievement tests, etc.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Hairston, Ernest and Bachman, John J.
- Description:
- INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The primary purpose of this study of the Negro deaf population in the Los Angeles area is exploratory and very general. It was undertaken to determine the approximate number of Negro deaf adults in the Lot Angeles are, their occupational, educational, and social conditions, the types of jobs they hold, their job stability, their means or communication, and their awareness or unawareness of and interest in the various adult education classes and rehabilitation services that are available. Additional objectives of this study were to discover, 1) To what extent has the Negro deaf adult made use of existing rehabilitation and social welfare services and 2) How this segment of the deaf population is affected occupationally, educationally, and socially by lack to rehabilitation services or adult education program,. In every large city there exists a sizeable number of Negro deaf adults and very little is known about them besides the fact that they exist. Almost no research has been attempted to identify their needs. In the Bigman, Lunde study on Occupational Conditions among the Deaf, it is stated that "the conditions of life and work of the adult dear have been little studied and a great many questions could not be answered by references to existing materials." Even less has been studied about the conditions among the Negro deaf. They are the most neglected and most misunderstood persons on the face or the earth. In the above mentioned study approximately 10,000 deaf persons throughout the nation were surveyed, yet only 3% of them were non-white. They were greatly underrepresented.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Corbett, Edward E.
- Description:
- This study is intended for parents of deaf children so that they might see what deaf people say about the problems of deafness. It is also intended to prepare parents for the ramifications of deafness. Another reason for this study is to enhance parental counseling by including suggestions made by the deaf people themselves. There are many articles written by people with normal hearing, on parental counseling for parents of deaf children but there are few articles written by the deaf themselves. Therefore, this paper is written by a deaf student so that the message might come straight from the horse's mouth�. The writer's primary debt goes to the 100 deaf adults residing in the metropolitan Los Angeles area who freely gave their time for the interviews. They all agreed on the importance of this study because they wanted to say: �After all, we are your deaf children grown up�. The writer is also indebted for helpful comments, constructive criticism and many specific suggestions to the following people: Kelly W. Boesen, L. Ronald Jacobs, and Sandra Lunestad, participants of the Class of 1971 Leadership training Program in the Area of the Deaf.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Hunter, Christopher H.
- Description:
- The modern medium of mass communication, television, has been in commercial uses for entertainment, advertisements, announcements, education, information, and emergency broadcasts. It may affect the safety of life or i property. The greatest advantage of having a teleVISION set is that it is a visual replacement of radio. However, as for emergency broadcast, the TV has not yet replaced the radio as it often broadcasts an announcement with little or no visuals. Television presently is meaningful only to approximately 90% of its American viewers. The minority, the American hearing impaired viewers, are denied their right to the invaluable education, social, and cultural benefits from the television because of their impaired hearing. Also, they are unable to receive emergency broadcasts. For instance, an earthquake occurred in southern California in February, 1971. All the television sets in the disaster areas were blacked out for a few minutes and when the sets were on again, an announcer calmly warned the residents below the leaky Van Norman dam to evacuate. In this area there lived many hearing impaired victims who were unable to receive such an oral message. Their neighbors, friends, and the police helped them to evacuate. This incident prompted thousands of letters nationwide to stations requesting special services such as captioning or interpreting the news and emergency broadcasts for the hearing impaired viewers. About eight weeks before the earthquake occurred, the Federal Communications Commission had urged all licensees to caption the news and emergency broadcasts.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- May, Karl H.
- Description:
- The student crossed his fingers and waited as the instructor began setting-up the test equipment. He had worked for three weeks on the construction of a baby cry signal lamp. Would it work? Would it really tell him if a baby cried? His baby? You see the student was a deaf parent who couldn�t hear and therefore had to depend on some other means or device which would warn him if his baby cried and needed attention. The parent had read of a new course in electronics which was being offered to adult deaf.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies