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- Creator:
- Sanders, George Earl
- Description:
- 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 further changes in the future. The report synthesizes the presentations made by distinguished professionals from education, government, industry, and law, themselves advocates of the disabled, at a workshop on the law and the handicapped for members of the National Leadership Training Programs (areas of the deaf and deafblind) at California State University, Northridge, in July 1974.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Klopping, Henry
- Description:
- 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 filled with findings concerning the inadequate services and lack of services to help those having communication disorders i.e. the deaf. With the knowledge of the above material in mind and the challenge presented to participants in the Leadership Training Program to become involved in assaying the role of community organization as it relates to services to the deaf, the following graduate project has taken form
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Bauss, Cristina I.
- Description:
- Impending regulation of California's marijuana industry demands a quantifiable understanding of the extent of cultivation and adequacy of water storage on private lands long devoted to a dispersed, but commercial-scale, unregulated marijuana industry. Water storage is a critical factor, given both California's droughts and its climate: indoor plants are grown under lights year-round, and outdoor plants are grown during the dry months. This research aimed to quantify marijuana cultivation and water storage in the Redwood Creek watershed of southern Humboldt County, where major land use changes have taken place since the late 1960s. Using Google Earth imagery and geospatial analysis, an inspection of 369 assessor's parcels located within or partly within the watershed yielded 303 greenhouses, 100 outdoor cultivation scenes, 164 water tanks, and 51 installed ponds. Estimating the number of water-storage tanks was much more challenging than estimating the number of cultivation sites; it is virtually certain that numerous tanks are under the forest canopy and not visible. The only way to verify their number and holding capacity would be through either ground truthing or GIS analysis using point-cloud data. The latter is costly to collect and process; therefore, given that many landowners who have engaged in unregulated marijuana cultivation are loath to grant access to outside parties, at this juncture it may be difficult for academic researchers, state and county regulators, environmental inspectors, and other interested parties to measure some of the industry's existing environmental impacts.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0575-5700
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Harland, F. Gordon and Griffing, Barry
- Description:
- 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 Training Program in the Area of the Deaf in 1963. The Leadership Training Program is an administrative training program preparing future administrators for programs working with the deaf which is based at San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, California. This program is sponsored, in part, by a training grant from the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. The questions covered a wide range of interest and were not confined to any given age group. (Specific questions asked are available in the Appendix) Questions were not open-ended but did provide ample opportunity for respondents to extend comments. Virtually all respondents used letters in returning the questionnaires. Twenty deaf educators were selected as respondents to this questionnaire making a select sample. There are a limited number of deaf educators in America having eminence and their unique positions provide the profession a vantage unparalleled in any field of special education in any country. Response to the questionnaire was very good with nineteen of twenty responding; a 95% return. The following criteria were used in selecting the respondents: a. deaf b. 35 years of age or older c. has had at least ten years of experience d. has demonstrated leadership e. has maintained a high level of professionalism.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Blakely, Michele
- Description:
- 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 students and quite possibly, these needs must be reviewed and appropriate programs established. The purpose of this study was to examine the 1985 National Canter on Deafness (NCOD) Summer Program and analyze its efficacy and, in turn, respond to the findings with recommendations and implications. The population included 27 deaf students who participated in the 1985 NCOD Summer Program and a random sampling of 27 new deaf students enrolled in the 1984 fall semester at CSUN. Pre-college enrollment data was collected as well as information regarding course load and grade point averages. Statistical analyses included a Pearson product moment correlation analysis and a series of Student�s t-tests. The conclusions drawn from this study suggest that while no significant differences appeared in the pre-college measures of the two groups involved, the fall 1984 population performed somewhat better, especially second semester, than did the 1985 group. This difference did not manifest itself in the first year cumulative GPA however. Recommendations include the continuation and evaluation of college and university orientation programs designed to meet deaf students ' needs, a look at variables not connected with the statistical findings nor measured by computers, and dissemination of information related to the importance of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the college GPA.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Heinrich, Helen, Mendes, Luiz, and Kutay, Stephen
- Description:
- The digital revolution has transformed the creation, distribution, and consumption of knowledge. From print to digital, new models of knowledge use, transference, and sharing continue to evolve. The result is a staggering increase in the circulation of knowledge products. How are university students and faculty utilizing technologies to produce, deliver and engage content? What are the emerging trends and models in education in this new context? Libraries play a central role as facilitators of knowledge systems by actively leveraging new tools, technology, and modes of delivery. Are these efforts at pace with the expectations of our students? A diverse panel of experts will address these questions and illustrate initiatives developed by universities and libraries in response to this revolution of knowledge.
- Resource Type:
- Postcard
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Gonzales, Ricardo D.
- Description:
- 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, community colleges, deaf students, and vocational rehabilitation counselors for the deaf. This information was collected via questionnaires, personal interviews and by reviewing available literature.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Holcomb,Roy, Silver,Norm, Petersen,Larry, Layne,JoAnn, and Greer, Billy
- Description:
- 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 the deaf, using both the literature and interviews with persons working in community agencies and schools, the graduate students determined that many deaf young persons and adults were not aware of many of the commonly-accepted services available to all citizens. In addition, some deaf persons who knew of the existence of such services did not know how, or who, to contact because of the limitations in communication skills. The graduate students also found that teachers, rehabilitation counselors, and some employers did not always have at hand a practical list of local services for use by their deaf students and clients.On the basis of such information, the group decided to develop a booklet which would centralize information needed in daily living. This booklet can be used in a variety of settings, as will be explained. The material can be personalized for a deaf student, or client, by including the name and phone number of such persons as the doctor, dentist, pharmacist, legal advisor, etc.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Meredith, Dianne
- Description:
- Invasion Ecology has contributed a questionable rhetoric to Biogeography which employs language and nomenclature seemingly borrowed from the volatile discourse surrounding the invasion of alien peoples across national borders. A case study from the San Francisco Bay Delta is presented (the invasion of Potamocorbula amurensis) as an introduction to the very real problem of exotic, alien species invasions. The contributing modern invasion mechanisms are discussed in the light of the social, cultural, and economic forces which began to unlock biogeographical closures around 1500 AD. Finally, a tour of the environmental perceptions surrounding alien species invasions reveals socialized rhetoric employed by both scientists and lay environmentalists.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Li, Xueming, Boroson, Beth, and Barker, Elizabeth
- Description:
- Little is known about growth in reading for students with visual impairments. Understanding reading development for students with visual impairments as they progress through school provides expectations for academic growth and informs instructional practices. Using data from Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress assessment, reading achievement was analyzed from 224 students with visual impairments in grades 3 - 10, in four states over an eight-year time period. Reading growth for students with visual impairments were compared with a nationally normed group of students from the general population. Findings indicate students with visual impairments initial performance in reading achievement in third grade is lower than the national norm. While this population's growth trajectories in reading are trending upward at a steady pace, the gap between students with visual impairments and the national norm is wide. However, the initial review of the data suggests that the rate of growth for students with visual impairments is greater. In particular, the results indicate accelerated growth between 9th and 10th grade, whereas students at the same grade level in the nationally normed group tend to drop in reading growth at this time. Study limitations and recommendations for future research are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Johnson, Robert and Moosapoor, Seb
- Description:
- Current standard apportionment adopted by states that impose a corporate income tax on multistate corporations may have a distortive effect when a corporation has IRC Section 481 income. This paper proposes an alternate method of apportionment that preserves the intent of IRC Section 481 and conforms to the fair apportionment requirements of the US Constitution.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Anderson, Lonna
- Description:
- 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-handicapped children. Mrs. Anderson wrote and had funded, a proposal entitled "Multi-handicapped Deaf-Blind Parent Participation Group," under E.S.E.A., Title VI Section C. Prior to this there were no formalized programs for the parents of deaf multi-handicapped and deaf-blind children in operation. On the main, this has been left to the classroom teachers of the children and is normally considered a portion of� the teacher-parent conference which are periodically scheduled. There was little or no interaction between parents sharing mutual problems in the education and growth of their children. Many writings have been devoted to the need for parent education for the parents of singularly-handicapped children, but little attention has been devoted to the education of the parent of the multi-handicapped child. The one program, currently in existence, has not received sufficient exposure to assist others who are interested in starting similar programs. As in many areas where this occurs, each person or group of persons must begin again although successful programs are in existence which could function as guide lines. There, then, is a need to prepare an audio-visual presentation of the existing program to assist others who are searching for a method of broadening parent education for parents of deaf-blind multi-handicapped children.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Moore, Richard W., Cumming, Trent, and Blake, Daniel R.
- Description:
- Governments at the local, state and national level face on-going fiscal problems, caused by the recent “great recession”, the aging of the population, and other factors. In response to these pressures governments at all levels are taking a hard look at spending, including social sector programs like the FamilySource system. In a recent article in The Atlantic, Peter Orzag(a Democrat) and John Bridgeland (a Republican) point out that as governments look to use public money effectively they often lack the information they need to evaluate program performance. In the opening of their article the authors frame the problem dramatically “Based on our rough calculations, less than $1 out of every $100 of government spending is backed by even the most basic evidence that the money is being spent wisely.” 1 They go on to ask the question “Can government play moneyball?”. By this they mean can government evaluate programs based on clear performance standards and use those results to better allocate public budgets. We believe the answer is yes. Over the last three years the City of Los Angeles has contracted with California State University Northridge to evaluate the impact of the FamilySource Program. This report presents the results of our analysis of the program's impact in the 2012-13 program year with comparisons to its performance over the last three years. Background Three years ago, the City of Los Angeles’s Community Development Department (CDD), predecessor of today’s Housing and Community Investment Department (HCID) restructured its program delivery system into the FamilySource Network (FSN). The key elements of the restructure included a system of 21 designated FamilySource Centers (FSCs) that deliver services with clear performance measures. The Network was designed to improve the lives of low income families and their communities. The FSCs are managed through a “Balanced Scorecard” performance system where FSCs are evaluated on four dimensions of performance: customer satisfaction, the volume of service delivered, the outcomes generated, and administrative performance. FSCs who achieve performance goals are awarded one to four stars. This report details the volume of services delivered and the outcomes generated; the other dimensions of performance are covered in other reports. The system has a sophisticated record-keeping system that tracks service delivery by type, volume, outcomes, and value (if applicable). This allows the HCID to track and manage its service delivery by center and type of service and provides the centers with the information and incentive to efficiently and effectively deliver those services. We use selected data from this system to estimate the impact of the FamilySource System on its clients and on the larger community.
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Simpson, William M., Brelje, H. William, and Smith, Mary E.
- Description:
- 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, it is the demands of the telephone that cause many of the problems faced by the deaf today, in employment as well as in their personal lives. Many attempts have been made to make the telephone a practical item for hearing handicapped individuals. Basically, all that is needed is to change the electrical impulses from the telephone lines into visual or tactile signals. The Leadership Training Program in the Area of the Deaf at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, California became involved in the problem of telephone communication for the deaf in 1963. It started out somewhat indirectly when John Darby of the American Hearing Society in San Francisco met with the presidents of several organizations in a discussion of leadership, problems among the deaf. The problem of' a lack of rapid �communications among deaf leaders was due to their inability to use the telephone. One deaf individual mentioned how quickly his hearing father-in-law was able to take care of arrangements over the telephone as compared with how long it took him to make similar arrangements using only the mails or personal contacts. In the same year a mother whose deaf daughter was expecting a baby wanted a way for her daughter to let her know when she needed her. The telephone company suggested one of the forms of telephone writing in current use. This was the first of the various electronic devices for telephone communication evaluated by the Leadership Training Program. Some of these earlier devices are listed below with data about each.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Abdulezer, Loren and DaSilva, Jason
- Description:
- The problem we are addressing is to provide greater travel independence through utilization of immersive technologies to navigate spaces utilizing VR and modern day mobile devices. We have focused on specific issues of travel training and fixed route services such as navigating through public transportation hubs. Immersive exploration of travel routes well in advance of attempting the travel reduces anxiety and builds confidence in wayfinding. We explore the technology stack, working methodology, and outcomes.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Poss, Bert E.
- Description:
- 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 rapid rise of man is often related to his two abilities of thinking and speaking. Whether it be in the form of ordinary day-to-day conversation, scientific exchange of ideas, or arguements for or against government decisions, the ability of man to speak has pushed him on to greater achievements since his beginning. When he was created, God spoke to Adam, and Adam, in turn, spoke to Eve. In the centuries since, Caesar spoke to his armies and pushed Rome on to greater heights. Teachers throughout history spoke to children in classrooms. Man�s civilization has changed much since the utterance of his first spoken word. Today man is still very much the communicative animal he was born to be. Whether it be in the writing, speaking, or in the form of the sign language that is used by deaf people, these forms are still communicative processes, and are basic to his very existence. There are several processes through which man communicates. One of them is in the area of public speaking. Public speaking involves man in facing an audience to communicate with many people at the same time. Public speaking is a powerful public endeavor. It is no longer recognized to be the professional art that was formerly practiced only by lawyers, preachers, teachers, and entertainers.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Matthews, Sara
- Description:
- Focusing on Arcata, California, this study explores the factors that motivate an individual to choose one mode of transportation over another, through an examination of a substantial subset of the town’s population—Humboldt State University (HSU) students. HSU has a significant presence in Arcata as the largest employer in the city, and it occupies 160 acres near the center of the urban area. Over 7,400 students are enrolled, nearing half the city’s population. By investigating this specific population’s trends when commuting to school, this study draws inferences as to their transportation habits in general. This insight provides a better understanding of what drives people in Arcata to walk or bike, rather than drive, around town. Ultimately, the study shows that people’s sense of place and attachment to Arcata, as well as their geographic location in Arcata, has a strong positive relationship to an increase in active transport use.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0575-5700
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Wojtanowski, Gabriella, Gilmore, Colleen, Fargas, Kristen, Kushalnagar, Raja, Vogler, Christian, and Seravalli, Barbra
- Description:
- Speech recognition technology advances have resulted in individual personal assistant devices that are voice-controlled, such as Alexa to become very popular and ubiquitous. They are inaccessible to Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) users, because of their reliance on spoken-modality input and output, who generally cannot interact with these devices and often use a visual language like American Sign Language (ASL). This study compared people using ASL and tablet applications that can communicate with AmazonEcho Show, in a limited domain. The study used the Amazon-Echo Show product and an android tablet. Participants were asked to fill out the survey about this interaction. The results were analyzed and recorded in this study. Quantitatively, participants equally preferred ASL and tablet interaction. However, qualitatively, participants preferred ASL over tablet interaction, as they reported that it felt more natural and quicker.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Hakkinen, Mark, White, Jason, and Grant, Jennifer
- Description:
- Web Components comprise a suite of technologies under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that together enable standard formats such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to be extended with new functionality. Web Components encapsulate presentation and behavior in a reusable fashion that coheres well with the markup languages and development practices of the Web. We briefly review the constituents of Web Component technology - custom elements, the shadow DOM, HTML imports, and the HTML 5 template element. We then argue that Web Components are a general mechanism that can be used to address problems, some of them long-standing, of Web accessibility. Our argument proceeds via a series of examples that illustrate the utility of Web Components as means of enhancing non-visual access to images, providing spoken and braille alternatives to textual content, and implementing custom interactive controls with features that improve access while bringing to the fore the underlying semantics of the content. Although the design of our Web Components is motivated by educational needs, they and the broader approach to solving accessibility challenges which they exemplify are applicable to the Web as a whole.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Rapier, Mary K.
- Description:
- This paper attempts to demonstrate by reviewing the history of and the periodical literature on deaf-blindness in the United States, the need for a journal for professionals working with persons who are deaf-blind. The review was conducted by researching indexes of education, special education, psychology, rehabilitation, and medical journals. For those early entries that could not be obtained Blea and Hobron's, Literature On The Deaf-Blind - An Annotated Bibliography, was used to obtain the content of the entry. The scarcity and diffusion of the literature is clearly demonstrated It was found that the majority of the literature in recent years is indexed under the Educational Resources Information Center system (ERIC), and has never appeared in a professional or popular publication. The final conclusion is that persons working in the field of deaf-blindness are being hindered by this lack of a systematic, widely distributed vehicle through which professional information and research can be stimulated and disseminated.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Bakewell, Dennis C., Tanis, Norman E., and Read, Don
- Description:
- Foreword by Norman Tanis; California State Universities-Northridge Libraries held an exhibit of the work of Lynton R. Kistler from April 25th through June 15th, 1975. The books and materials which follow were exhibited at that time as a tribute to the vision, patience, craftsmanship and imagination of Kistler as a printer and a lithographer. We feel that this annotated list of exhibited materials shows the distinction, care and experience of an artist-craftsman. The University Libraries are honored to have had the exhibit and to make this record of Kistler's printed works available to a wider public.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- [none]
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Knudson, Bradley G.
- Description:
- 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 multiply handicapped hearing impaired population is presently being served and will be served in the future by these programs. The investigation centered around a questionnaire which solicited responses from 110 schools for the hearing impaired which serve more than 100 hearing impaired students. The survey focused on the following areas: 1) the present classroom placement of the multiply handicapped hearing impaired student; 2) the professionals' opinion as to the most appropriate placement for the eleven classifications of multiply handicapped hearing impaired; 3) an estimate of future placement service types; 4) general features of programs which facilitate service. Although placement in day schools as compared to residential/day schools are different, both opinions and future projections of placements indicate a movement toward providing less restrictive placements for the multiply handicapped hearing impaired student. In addition, a tendency for programs to provide broader services to the multiply handicapped hearing impaired was demonstrated by more than 80 percent of the programs reporting special provisions for this population. In addition, twelve programs plan to provide future services to the mentally retarded hearing impaired.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Mimoso, Jehnny Dolly
- Description:
- 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 Katz (human, technical and conceptual). She divided these skills into ten characteristics that best represent each one of the three skills. Seventy respondents completed the questionnaire. The respondents represent the hearing and hearing impaired students at California State University, Northridge. The analysis of the data obtained by each item on the 70 completed questionnaires was presented in nine tables. Each was given a rank of importance from one to ten, with one as the most important and ten as the least important, This was then multiplied by the numbers 'of respondents in each item and then added for a total score. It can be concluded that the hearing and hearing-impaired groups share many similarities in the characteristics they considered most and least important in the human, conceptual and technical skills.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Nomeland, Ronald E.
- Description:
- 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 since its inception in 1962, twenty-eight were classified as deaf or hard of hearing. The program has been supported by grant funds from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Stump, Joanne Mary
- Description:
- The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide to be used by non- English-speaking parents of deaf children who are educated in schools that conduct classes in English, The lack of a set of guidelines for �now English-speaking parents of deaf children is seen by the writer as a major reason for the relatively slow progress of these children in school. Such guidelines should be written and translated into the native language of the parents. As stated previously, the purpose of this project is to create such a set of guidelines and make them available for translation. The literature dealing with the education of parents of deaf children emphasizes the importance of its role in the lives of the parents and their deaf child, The writer was unable to locate any studies specifically relating to French or Italian parents of deaf children; however, several studies suggest that cooperative parent-teacher relations are necessary in fulfilling the needs of the deaf child, Early positive parent-child interaction is the very cornerstone for communication and language development. Parents must assume the responsibilities to meet the needs of their deaf child. Total communication is described and the data results of researchers comparing results of early manual communication with oral preschool education reported more positive gains by the children who used manual communication. Some researchers have indicated that the earlier the child learns total communication, rather than oral communication, alone, the higher he will achieve educationally psychologically and socially. A final section of this paper deals with the approaches to the problem that non-English speaking parents of the deaf child faces. In the past, non-English speaking parents have been frustrated and they lack many advantages that English speaking parents have such as: 1. Materials on deafness printed in English. 2. Sign Language classes in English. 3. Parent education/counseling in English. 4. Parent/teacher meetings in English. A parent education program and a parent/teacher relationship with the deaf child should be offered bilingually to develop parental involvement.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Laughna, Robert J.
- Description:
- Communication is the greatest problem of the deaf and significantly hearing-impaired. Deaf and hearing-impaired persons feel that many services and benefits that governmental agencies offer are not accessible to the deaf and hearing-impaired because of their communication problems. For purposes of this study, a deaf person is one whose hearing is disabled to an extent that precludes the understanding of speech through the ear alone, with or without the use of a hearing aid. I) A person with a hearing impairment is one with a significant deviation from normal hearing. 2) "Hearing impairment" will not refer to all types of hearing defects, because persons with only a slight hearing loss do not generally need the same services and experience the same serious communication problems in daily living as do deaf persons or persons with a significant hearing loss. The focus of this study is on the needs and problems of the deaf and the significantly hearing impaired.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
