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- Creator:
- Martin, Debra Westelle
- Description:
- 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 forms of community group living as halfway houses, group homes, and foster care placement. These forms of living lack the dehumanizing effect that is characteristic of the majority of today's institutions. By researching various community group living situations, consulting with leading specialists in the field of the deaf-blind and through questionnaire findings, the investigator conceptualized a group living situation for deaf-blind individuals that receive services from programs affiliated with the Southeast Regional Center for Deaf-Blind Children. The group living situation is designed in developmental phases. The first phase is the halfway house established within each state in the region. After the individual has adjusted to the semi-normalized life style, he will progress to the second phase, the group home. The group home is divided into two stages: semi-independent and independent living.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Kushalnagar, Raja S. and Tart, Jenna A.
- Description:
- Before the invention of the telecommunication relay services (TRS), Deaf Americans who wanted to use public communication systems, such as the telephone network, faced issues of confidentiality and inconvenience because they needed assistance from a hearing person. With the introduction of telecommunication devices such as the teletypewriter (TTYs) and Video Relay Services (VRS), deaf Americans gained a measure of functional equivalency with their hearing peers. This research reports on an iterative survey and redesign to create a high fidelity user interface design based on their responses and to discover more about user's VRS usage.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Petz, Andrea and Radu, Nicoleta
- Description:
- People with physical or sensory disabilities are a well-researched user group considering or with considerations to their needs and prerequisites to use the web, while potential users with cognitive disabilities lack adequate solutions to overcome barriers resulting from their disability. An innovative graphical user interface developed within the project CAPKOM intends to improve the web experience of people with cognitive disabilities by a twofold approach: the user interface will be instantly adaptable to the very different demands of people with cognitive disabilities and iterative user tests will feed results into software development activities, first exemplified by a community art portal for people with cognitive disabilities.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Waldorf, Jean F.
- Description:
- The general purpose of this study was to determine if burnout existed among Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf within the state of California. A questionnaire was mailed out to thirty-eight Rehabilitation Counselors with the Deaf and there was a 77; return. The questionnaire was divided into two sections. The purpose of the first section was to collect background information. The second section was the Maslach Burnout Inventory that consisted of twenty-five statements designed to reflect experienced burnout. The results of the data collected showed that 51 .6% of the counselors were men and the same percentage were married. Seventy-four percent had normal hearing. Approximately three-fourths of the Rehabilitation Counselors with the Deaf had been employed in that position for less than four years. The counselors surveyed indicated professional training in the field with 77, 4% having a M.A. or M.S degree. One question was included pertaining to the counselor�s ability to use manual communication and 73.3% reported that they had either a fair or good ability to use and understand manual communication. The data collected from the results of the responses on the Maslach Burnout Inventory showed the presence of first and second degree stages of burnout. The most obvious area where experienced burnout appeared was that in the subscale of Emotional Exhaustion. The second area that showed the existence of burnout was on the subscale of Personal Involvement. Two areas, Personal Accomplishment and Depersonalization did not show an overall presence of burnout and this indicates that the causes of experienced burnout were not directly related to client involvement. It was recommended that further research be done to see if experienced burnout is more prevalent in R.C.D. s or general case workers. Also, studies utilizing similar instruments could be done outside of California to determine the existence of burnout in Rehabilitation Counselors with the Deaf in other states. It was also suggested that a study determining the rate of turnover, reasons for leaving, and an investigation into the jobs that Rehabilitation Counselors with the Deaf go to after leaving their counseling positions be done to document the existence of burnout as it relates to turnover. Finally, research of other professionals working with the deaf and the incidence of burnout among these particular groups would serve as a contribution to the field.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Lee, Giseung
- Description:
- Many different social concepts that can be seen in Japanese literature, for example, risshin shusse (rising in the world), giri (obligation) and ninj? (personal feelings). In addition to the ideas of risshin shusse, giri and ninj?, there is a social ideal that is frequently noticeable and reoccurring in Japanese literature. That ideal is that a woman should be self-sacrificing. In this paper, two main film works will be analyzed to demonstrate and examine views on self-sacrifice by Japanese women. Those two works are Ukigusa monogatari (A Story of Floating Weeds, 1932) and Ugetsu (Tales of Moonlight and Rain, 1953). These films are set in the Edo period (1600-1868) and the Sh?wa period (1926-1989) respectively. [Ugetsu's periodization is problematic: the film mainly borrows from a story from Ueda Akinari's original Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) that is set in the Sengoku Period (1467-1573), the period leading up to the Edo Period, but I read both the film and its source material as being representative of the Edo Period itself, when Akinari wrote the source work.] The films of Ukigusa monogatari and Ugetsu were both completed in the Sh?wa period and both of these works noticeably deal with self-sacrifice from the primary wife characters. Whether the question of self-sacrifice was socially obligated or voluntarily based is a question that I will pursue; in-depth exchanges in dialogue will be examined in order to support the hypothesis. Women's power within society will be also investigated to further clarify the concept of self-sacrifice by Japanese women.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Heaton, Jill S., Lawrence, Brendan W., and Nussear, Kenneth E.
- Description:
- The objective of this research was to investigate the role of land cover changes through time in influencing spatial variability of the surface urban heat island of the metropolitan area of Reno-Sparks, Nevada. Thermal imagery from Landsat 7 ETM+ sensor was gathered for a period between 2004 and 2017. Using parcel data, the time series of Landsat data was sampled for areas that had undergone development during that time. A set of generalized linear models was conducted to determine expected temperature change with land cover class. It was found that recently developed regions within Reno-Sparks are 0.6oC warmer on average than the undeveloped desert grasses and sage. When wetlands/irrigated greenery were converted, it resulted in an increase of over 2oC. This research has shown that the Reno-Sparks surface urban heat island has undergone local, but measurable, growth in the past fourteen years.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0575-5700
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Garrity, James H.
- Description:
- Little attention has been directed in educational research to the identification of administrative problems in residential educational programs for deaf children. In light of current demands by consumers for program excellence the identification of key problems may be the first step in their resolution. The purpose of this project was to identify and rank the administrative problems that confront the superintendents of the largest residential schools for the deaf in the United States. The top ranked problem was that of reducing the paperwork deluge. The second dealt with Public Law 94-142, while the third ranked problem concerned obtaining adequate funding. None of the top four problems in this study was mentioned in a study done by Carr in 1966. The top ranked problem in that study, obtaining trained teachers, was ranked 27th in this project, although four of the top 9 Carr problems were also among the top 9 in this project. This study indicates that the administrators seem to regard the involvement of various governmental agencies in their programs as being very time consuming. The major recommendation resulting from this study is that pre-service and in-service training in the areas of time management and paperwork management be made available to future and current administrators.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Masunaga, Shingo
- Description:
- This article attempts to manifest future of Japanese nationalism through the traditional Shinto nationalism and the decades-long concept of "family nation". The both are products of contemporary Shintoism hence mutually intertwined. In recent years, Japanese nationalists succeeded to integrate the family nation concept with their Shinto agenda. Through Professor Aiji Tanaka's Three Dimentional Coordinates Model (TDCM), it was found that the Shinto nationalists are less likely to repeat the historical mistakes of the pre-war State Shinto, however more prone to increase tensions, even wars, with neighbouring states than other ideologies.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Jackson, Melody M., Park, Bum Jun, and Zuerndorfer, Jay
- Description:
- Guide dogs have the important responsibility of connecting their visually-impaired users to their immediate surroundings. However, it is often difficult for guide dogs to accurately communicate information to their human partners. This experiment aimed to enhance the platform for communication between guide dogs and handlers by investigating the best vibration feedback methods for handlers to receive information from their guide dogs. We created four different prototypes to test a human's ability to distinguish between four randomly selected vibration patterns. A total of 12 users participated in this pilot study, each receiving 8 minutes of training for familiarization with the prototypes. The results of the pilot study were evaluated based on the users' ability to correctly identify the vibration patterns when prompted, and a questionnaire posed to the users at the end of the experiment. This pilot study yielded an overall accuracy of 97%. It was also found that the smart-watch prototype produced the highest accuracy, while the guide dog harness bar prototype was the most preferred design among the participants.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Hoffmann, Ernest E.
- Description:
- 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 more �involved after completing the training program or not. It was felt that the graduates are not using their expertise and sharing with the deaf community where the deaf citizens need all the assistance in becoming leaders and to enable themselves to help themselves. The study concluded that there were some increase in the involvement after the training period, but the increase was not as one would expect it to be. It also pointed out the mobility of the graduates in their employment.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Description:
- California State University, Northridge (CSUN) will host the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast 2016 Conference on the CSUN campus in Northridge, California from Friday, June 10-Sunday, June 12. College and university faculty, K-12 schoolteachers, independent scholars and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies are invited to join.
- Resource Type:
- Conference program
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Ingham, W. Edward
- Description:
- 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 common factors in those students' educational and family backgrounds which may have influenced their academic successes. There is a lack of research on, and understanding of, the various factors which more commonly influence the educational and social successes of deaf children. The discovery and understanding of these factors would be valuable as input in the development of efficient means of educating parents of deaf children on what they could best do to help their child in his or her educational and social growth. During the Spring semester of 1977, there were 169 deaf students attending this university, integrated into regular classes with hearing students. Research has shown this group of deaf students to be basically a prelingually and profoundly deaf group, with a mean better ear average hearing loss of 88 decibels, and that those deaf students are achieving academically at the same levels as the general university student population. Some professionals in the education of the deaf have considered these deaf students to be the cream of the crop of deaf college students in the United States. The conclusion of this project paper lists sixteen common factors found among these deaf students.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Salim, Zia
- Description:
- This cross-sectional study examines spatial and thematic patterns of public art in Venice, Los Angeles's bohemian beach community, to determine how public wall art marks the cultural landscape. To do this, 353 items of public art were field surveyed, photographed, and mapped, with the resulting inventory being subjected to content analysis. Data from secondary sources, including the city's history and demographics, were used to contextualize the results. The results indicate that most public art is located on commercial buildings, with a smaller concentration on residential buildings. A majority of public art in Venice includes three main types of elements: local elements, people, and nature. Although public art is an especially dynamic and ephemeral subject of study, I conclude that an analysis of the locations and themes of public art helps to explain its aesthetic and historic functions and demonstrates its role in Venice's cultural landscape.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0575-5700
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Sommer, Shelby C. and Richard, Moore
- Description:
- The Community Development Department is committed to making the FamilySource Network a performance driven system. In CDD’s performance model, there are four aspects of performance: Customer Satisfaction, Outcomes, Flow (volume of clients), and Administrative Performance (SOFA). This report presents the results of a full-scale pilot survey of the Customer Satisfaction measures of the performance system. The survey measured the customer satisfaction of three key stakeholder groups: - Adult clients - Youth clients - Executive Directors of the FamilySource Centers. [more in document]
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Abram, Stephen and Kutay, Stephen
- Description:
- Part two of six. 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:
- Presentation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Datel, Robin
- Description:
- An earlier article in The California Geographer (Dilsaver, Wyckoff, and Preston 2000) identified fifteen historical events that triggered significant changes to California's human landscape. Building on that base, this article focuses on the four-county Sacramento region and adds eleven more events that have shaped its human landscape. The eleven events involve race-based slavery, the state capital, chain businesses, redevelopment, public higher education, the expanding medical sector, the U.S. immigration system, historic preservation, deindustrialization, restaurants, and human-driven drought. Each event has left its mark on places in the Sacramento area, as well as more widely across the state. Many of the events reveal important social and institutional, as well as economic and technological, aspects of Sacramento and California. These eleven events and the fifteen earlier identified reveal the multi-scalar and often conflicting values and forces that produce human landscapes and related spatial patterns.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0575-5700
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Lemke, Richard E.
- Description:
- 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 adults was conducted. It was determined that in contrast to the general hearing population the deaf have been heavily overrepresented in clerical, semi-skilled, and unskilled occupations or underrepresented in the professional, semi-professional and skilled occupations. A questionnaire concerning job placement practices was sent to 39 RCD's throughout California, It was revealed that RCD�s in the state use local, state, and national labor market projections in their placement planning. In addition, the survey identified numerous job placement agencies and services which appear to be available to deaf clients, but are not due to a lack of personnel trained in communication with potential deaf clients. Finally, the survey identifies numerous agencies that work cooperatively with the RCD's in the job placement process. The need for additional research on the topic of job placement for deaf individuals was emphasized and several potential topics of study were proposed.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Man, Christine and Botz, Peter
- Description:
- In public pronouncements culminating in its answer to a question posed at the 2016 International Fiscal Association Roundtable, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has taken the position that Florida and Delaware limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and limited liability limited partnerships (LLLPs) will be treated by it as corporations for Canadian income tax purposes. As it is likely that the salient features of Florida and Delaware LLPs and LLLPs are comparable to those of similar partnerships in other U.S. states, this CRA position is expected to have a broad impact. While the merits of CRA's position can be debated, affected taxpayers must deal with the practicalities. In this context, the CRA has agreed to provide administrative relief for LLPs and LLLPs that convert to a form recognized by CRA as a partnership (a general partnership or a limited partnership) before 2018, provided certain other requirements are met as discussed below.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Morris, Eloise McKay
- Description:
- 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 stigmatization which is expressed in a denial of education and other social liberties. Often the result is the multi-labeled deaf person is involuntarily committed to a state hospital or institution where he continues to experience denials of rights. There have been recent court actions and legislation that have been in support of improved treatment and services for handicapped persons. Some of the landmark decisions and their implications for multi-labeled deaf persons are discussed. A final section deals with advocacy roles that can and must be assumed by institutional staff members, parents, community agencies and members on behalf of institutionalized multi-labeled deaf persons. Such per sons working together can insure appropriate education and training with the result that many of these persons can live semi-independently or independently in the community. Such advocacy calls for a change in our attitudes and in our institutional goals, programs and services.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Culton, Paul M.
- Description:
- 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 language skills has contributed to inadequate education and underemployment for many deaf adults. The problem is evident even in early childhood. Few deaf children enter school with a total vocabulary of more than twenty words. At the same age normally hearing youngsters can generally be expected to know and use about five thousand words. Several word lists for vocabulary building among deaf children have been constructed. These lists have usually been in a form that is c1ifficult to ac1.apt for actual use --long alphabetical lists, not subdivided, and with no recommendations as to which words should be learned first. The intent of preparing this Vocabulary Guide was to propose a word list and suggestions for its use with very young deaf children. The words have been selected and arrangec1 in the order of how useful each word might be to a preschool deaf child. They are grouped in segments of manageable size for teaching and learning at home or in school.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Abyarjoo, Fatemeh, Barreto, Armando, Ortega, Francisco R., and Coffino, Jonathan
- Description:
- The World Wide Web has made more information readily available than at any time in human history. This information is often presented visually, which can be an inaccessible medium for people with blindness or low-vision. Presently, screen readers are able to verbalize on-screen text using text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. However, much of this vocalization is inadequate for browsing the Internet, as it cannot properly convey the structure and relationships that exist in a visual presentation. We have created and tested an auditory interface that incorporates auditory-spatial orientation within a tabular structure. When information is structured as a two-dimensional table, links can be semantically grouped as cells in a row within the auditory table, which provides a consistent structure for auditory navigation. Our auditory display prototype was tested with sixteen legally blind participants, who each navigated four sonified tables enhanced with prepended tones, which were varied with stereo spatialization and tonal variation. The sonified tables were presented in a randomized order to avoid ordering/learning effects. Results from the experiment showed that stereo panning was an effective technique for audio-spatially orienting non-visual navigation in a five-row, six-column HTML table as compared to a centered, stationary synthesized voice.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Fitzpatrick, Donal, Noonan, Christopher, Brophy, Thomas, Neff, Flaithri, and Pitt, Ian
- Description:
- Music is an activity primarily associated with the capacity to hear, but in Western forms there is a significant emphasis on an orchestral musician's ability to see when rehearsing and performing. In both of these circumstances, the musician relies on being able to see the conductor's cues in order to translate the physical gestures into musical expression, feeling, tempo and musical emphases. The rehearsal environment is even more complicated in that there are often sporadic musical entry-points as the ensemble jumps between sections of a score. This paper outlines early-stage research which aims to alleviate some of the difficulties encountered by blind musicians in an orchestral environment.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Dayian, Chris C.
- Description:
- 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 to most programs. The myriad of materials researched and developed for the space program can be utilized in the instruction of the multihandicapped, Examples are presented. Much of this technology and corresponding information i s stored in sources unknown used by educators. Access to the sources is described. This technology when utilized will significantly improve the educational opportunities of the multihandicapped.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Moore, Richard W., Patch, Robin N., and Heisley, Deborah D.
- Description:
- The Consulting Center at the College of Business and Economics, California State University, Northridge, contracted with the City to survey youth participants served during the 2010-11 program year. We collected data on services received, satisfaction with services received and the characteristics of youth served. This report presents the results of the survey for the program as a whole and for each OneSource contractor individually. Where possible we compared results for this year with data from earlier years to identify trends in the data that may be valuable to program operators and the WIB.
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Description:
- The New Journal of Student Research Abstracts is published yearly in the fall. Continued publication is always dependent on funding. The journal is intended to serve as (1) a vehicle to honor young investigators and their teachers by showcasing their work, motivating them to continue their involvement in research science; (2) a sourcebook for both students and teachers who are looking for ideas for research projects; and (3) a volume to disseminate student research discoveries. Many abstracts included in the journal demonstrate good science, i.e., clear introductions describing a hypothesis to be tested, appropriate methods and data analysis, results and conclusion statements, and -- most important -- sufficient numbers of appropriate control and experimental samples and repetitions of experiments. Some are idea abstracts, and some are abstracts of library or Internet research projects. | Abstracts are reviewed by the teachers and the journal editors, and may be edited for clarification or grammar corrections. Although the journal editors delete very poor abstracts from the publication, some abstracts herein are quite flawed, and some lack at least one component of a good science experiment. Including some of these abstracts helps make this journal very useful for classes to learn what makes for a good experiment and a good abstract versus a not-so-good experiment and a not-so-good abstract. | Some of the abstracts are experimental plans instead of completed projects. This is especially true in the case of long-term, sophisticated research programs that require extensive setup and planning. | The journal encourages abstracts on the planning and progress of such projects. | The journal editor continues to reserve the right not to publish those abstracts that are seriously flawed. The journal does not notify authors if their abstracts have been deleted. Please note that any abstract that involves harming vertebrate animals (including humans) will not be published in this journal. | Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations are those of the individual authors of the abstracts presented in the journal, and do not necessarily reflect the views of California State University, Northridge, other contributing organizations and individuals, or the journal staff.
- Resource Type:
- Journal
- Identifier:
- 1558-7932
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Goldberg, Martin, Zhang, Zhanyang, and Zhu, Zhigang
- Description:
- It is a challenge for researchers and engineers in the assistive technology (AT) community to provide suitable solutions for visually impaired people (VIPs) for orientation, navigation and mobility (ONM). Our literature review looked at the current state of the art in AT designed to aid VIPs in ONM. Given the spectrum of the AT solutions at the time of our survey, there are several papers in our review which raise the adoptability issue for AT solutions specifically designed for VIPs. We conducted a survey in order to gain insight into how this technology was actually being used by VIPs. We consider the underlying issues and challenges causing current AT solutions to fall short in addressing VIP's ONM needs. We felt that it is critical to re-examine and rethink the approaches that have been taken. It is our belief that we need to take a different and innovative approach to solve this problem while addressing the issues revealed in our survey and subsequent analysis. Motivated by these findings, we propose an integrated cyber-physical system (CPS) framework with 'Agents' and 'Smart Environments' to address VIP's ONM needs in urban settings.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Coulson, M. James
- Description:
- 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 of the hearing-impaired driver is expanding due to more emphasis on the handicapped and their legal rights. In addition to these agencies, and more directly influencing the actual process of education and training of the hearing-impaired student, is the educational system. The educational system faces a tremendous responsibility in meeting the challenge of providing driver's education and training to hearing-impaired students. Of extreme importance are the benefits that driver's education and training have for the individual and society. Recognition of the hearing-impaired person's right to drive is of major significance. The hearing-impaired individual depends upon the automobile for most of his daily existence, communication, and mobility needs probably more than anyone in our society. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to determine the nature, extent, and quality of driver's education and training received in high school by students attending CSUN. Results revealed that most students are being offered driver's education, with most students taking the course. The students are not necessarily being offered uniform programs; differences were found in the areas of in-car and in-class instruction, use of textbooks and captioned films during in-class instruction, type of equipment offered in the car used for in-car instruction, and procedures and requirements of schools and states in issuing learner's permits and driver's licenses to students.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Quintana, Henrietta
- Description:
- 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 program. The second goal of this study was to ascertain how parents and students would rate these identified factors in terms of importance and contribution to the hearing-impaired child. Two questionnaires were utilized in this study. The first questionnaire was sent to parents and professionally employed hearing-impaired adults who identified the factors to be rated. The second questionnaire was sent to sixty parents of hearing-impaired students who were attending California State University, Northridge, and sixty students who were attending. (Parents and students were not necessarily related.) The findings reveal that parents were extremely influential in the educational programs of their children. They also show that the deaf or hearing-impaired children were accepted as any other member of the family. The hearing-impaired child communicated regularly at home and parents expected their children to achieve in spite of any handicapping conditions that existed. Professionals should encourage parents to become more involved in the overall education of their hearing-impaired child and should cease from trying to transform parents into homebound teachers. Parents have a vital role to play and their input should be maximized and used properly.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Okubo, Donna
- Description:
- Presentation from the 2014 Open Access Week event at the Delmar T. Oviatt Library Ferman Presentation room on October 23, 2014. Topics covered include Public Library Of Science (PLOS), open access journals, open access movement, Creative Commons and other open licensing strategies, and California Assembly Bill (AB) 609, the Public Access to Taxpayer Funded Research act.
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Kimberlin, Gregory C.
- Description:
- 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 described an abundance of new devices, though their study was focused on only one. As more and more deaf persons become familiar with the telephone through the use of new instruments, unforeseen costs render practical use of the phone for the deaf almost impossible.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Clark, Richard S.
- Description:
- 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 systems purported to answer the needs of deaf people in using the telephone. He points out the frustrations encountered by people who have used these systems and indicates actions which can be taken to alleviate the inequality of telephone service in the United States. the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the amendments to that Act form the legal basis for recommendations to improve telephone communications for people who can neither hear nor speak. The possibility of favorable interpretation of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 regarding equal access to telephone communications is presented through the eyes of a lawyer employed by the United States Government. Recommendations for further study of the responsibilities of telephone companies, tax supported agencies, and the media are made in the hopes that they will be pursued toward the goal of equal access to telephone communications for people who can neither hear nor speak.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Santorelli, Claire J., Ganz, Aura, Weghorst, Jennifer A., Schaffner, Colleen M., Wilson, Carole, Robertson, Meg, Tao, Yang, Sanderson, Charlene, Notman, Hugh, Pavelka, Mary S., Aureli, Filippo, Haile, Larry, Campbell, Christina J., and Schafer, James M.
- Description:
- In this paper we introduce a PERCEPT based interactive indoor navigation system that enables the visually impaired users to independently navigate in subway systems. The user carries an Android Smartphone that interacts with the subway environment in which we deploy Near Field Communication tags. Using the navigation instructions generated by PERCEPT system the visually impaired users can successfully navigate to their destination. The system has been deployed in Arlington subway station in Boston and has been successfully tested with visually impaired subjects.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2330-4219
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Scanlon, James A.
- Description:
- 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" reevaluation of the basis upon which we categorize handicapped children is necessary. The purpose of this study was to compare the psycholinguistic profiles of children with sensory handicaps with those of children who have been certified as learning disabled. Two types of learning disabled children were used. Those with marked preference for auditory learning were compared with visually impaired children and those with marked preference for visual learning were compared with hearing impaired children. Subtest scores on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities were intercorrelated. Visual subtest scores were correlated. With Weschlers Intelligence Verbal and Performance Scales and Auditory Subtest scores were correlated with Weschler verbal and performance scales. The study concluded that visual learners did show some similarity to hearing impaired children and auditory learning showed some similarity to visually impaired children. The differences between the two types of learning disabled children and the sensory impaired were in the severity of the subtest deficits and strengths. The patterns of psycholinguistic functioning were similar, suggesting that learning disabled children showing marked auditory or visual preference might profit from instruction in children having sensory impairments.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Moore, Richard W. and Blanc, Sebastien A.
- Description:
- In program year 2014-15, the City of Los Angeles Economic and Workforce Development Department (EWDD) provided funding for 13 YouthSource contractors. YouthSource Centers offer an array of supportive services and training services for youths aged 14-21 years old. Such supportive and training services include, but are not limited, to the following: Work readiness - to prepare youth to secure jobs. Career exploration - to help youth learn about jobs and careers. Job skills - to help youth acquire necessary skills for obtaining a first job. Computer skills - to help youth learn how to find job opportunities online; and to write a resume and cover letter that can aid in landing a job. College preparation - to help youth learn about educational opportunities and how degrees lead to careers. Mentoring & counseling - to support youth as they plan their education and careers. The EWDD contracted with the Northridge Consulting Group at the College of Business and Economics, California State University, Northridge to survey 2014-15 youth program participants. We collected data on services received, satisfaction with services received and the characteristics of participants. This report presents the results of the survey for the program as a whole and for each YouthSource contractor individually. Where possible we compared results for this year with data from earlier years to identify trends in the data that may be valuable to program operators and the Workforce Investment Board.
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Abboud, Nicole
- Description:
- 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 revealing the secrets she hides and sparing her brother further torment.
- Resource Type:
- Script
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Cinema and Television Arts