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 . . .

This paper discusses the past and present plight of persons who rightly or wrongly are diagnosed and labeled as being deaf with additional handicaps. It is indicated that a process evolves from this labeling. The labeling induces certain stigmatizatio . . .

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 . . .

Farm ponds are small man-made resevoirs used for watering of farm animals, irrigation and fishing. Because of their small size, farm ponds are susceptible to rapid eutrophication which can cause growth of noxious or poisonous algae, unpleasant odor . . .

The behavioral response of the Dried-fruit beetle, Carpophilus hemipterus (L.), Carpophilus mutilatus (Er.), Pineapple beetle, Urophorus humeralis (F.) and Haptoncus luteolus (Er.) to the pulp and rind of navel orange and Lisbon lemon and to cold . . .

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 . . .

I wish to express my thanks to Louie Fant for his permission to write the story of his life, and his help in providing taped descriptions of various events in his life, and the numerous written documents (journals, articles, notes) that he has acc . . .

To deal effectively with the phenomenon of noise, it is necessary to have some basic understanding of what the characteristics of sound are, how sound behaves, and how it is measured. The Noise Element defines noise as "unwanted sound that is disr . . .

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 . . .

A piercing drama in which an Iraqi woman suspected of aiding revolutionaries is imprisoned and tortured in the notorious Abu Graib prison. When she discovers her long-missing autistic brother has also been imprisoned there, she must choose between rev . . .

The Alpha Center is the title given to this thesis which summarizes and integrates the empirical research of the author during the period 1971-1975. Its purpose is to document three major related ideas: (l) nontoxic subliminal to very low doses of . . .

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 . . .

In Japan, the attitudes of the government toward Japanese Sign Language separates in two directions. The Ministry of Health and Welfare regards Japanese Sign Language as a means of implementation and a function to the deaf, while the Ministry of Educa . . .

This paper deals with vocational rehabilitation services for the congenitally deaf-blind as opposed to the adventitiously deaf-blind. The reason for this is because the congenitally deaf-blind are more severely disabled and have not been adequately se . . .

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 . . .

Older adult exercise participation has proven beneficial for improving physical and mental health. This study evaluates older adults’ quality of life after participation in an exercise class. The WHOQOL-bref survey was utilized in a sample of older ad . . .

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 . . .

INTRODUCTION. It is generally recognized that parents play a vital role in the educational, social, and emotional development of their children. Dr. E. R. Pinckney, author of Mirror of Your Mind, states that children seem to be learning more outside t . . .

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 . . .

The purpose of this study is two-fold. The first is to fill the need for information to ascertain the numbers, distribution, and characteristics of the black deaf adults in the Los Angeles County area. This is needed in planning comprehensive programs . . .

By means of mailed questionnaires, educators training teachers of the hearing impaired in the United States were surveyed. Three types of information were gathered: 1) a professional description of teacher educators of the hearing impaired; 2) a descr . . .

The purpose of this study was the development of suitable guidelines for establishing pre-vocational programs in an educational setting. The research information utilized for this study was elicited from parents, teachers, para-professionals, and voca . . .

Project P.L.A.Y. (Preferred Leisure time Activities of Deaf-Blind Youth) was undertaken as a Master's Thesis for completion of the National Leadership Training Program in the Area of the Deaf-Blind from California State University, Northridge. It has . . .

The Key for providing better learning experiences for our deaf children is through supervisors and leadership. This manual has been designed to meet the needs of the supervisor in helping provide useful ideas and techniques for "key" problems arising . . .

The objective of this study is to learn some of the effects of one integrated college program on its hearing-impaired student participants in terms of: (1) academic achievement, (2) social growth and (3) personal growth; given a college setting which . . .

Included herein is a multi-faceted plan for the social adjustment of deaf emotionally/behaviorally disturbed adolescents. The estimates of hearing-impaired emotionally disturbed children and families needing these services range between 165 to 1,275 i . . .