A rapid ethnograhic study of 10 itinerant teachers in two school districts and 21 other professionals working with the itinerants was conducted. Rapid ethnography starts with the same assumptions about culture as conventional ethnography. However, it is not constrained by the assumption of cultural ignorance on the investigator's part. Thus, it…

Interviews with 23 deaf or hearing teachers of the deaf raised two questions concerning the use of narrative to understand teachers' thinking about teaching: namely, the limits of narrative as a data source and the feasibility of productive analysis of narratives. Results suggest that teachers do not store information about teaching as narratives…

Interviews with 35 parents of children with cochlear implants found that one type of parent has initial and exclusive contact through a medical practitioner and is motivated by desire for a normal communication situation and the second type learns about implants from family or teachers and is motivated by lack of communication skills. (Contains…

A study compared the self-concept and loneliness of 36 students with deafness and 39 hearing peers (grades 4-8) in co-teaching inclusive classrooms. Consistent results indicate that while age differences appeared, there were no negative social consequences of coteaching for the students with deafness. (Author/CR)

Interviews with 105 parents of deaf children, ages 2 to 8, in five cities found (1) subgroups of parents with distinct capabilities for responding to their children's educational needs; (2) different forms of parental response to a child's educational needs; and (3) interactions between parent type and nature of the response. (Author/DB)

Differences in teachers' ability to use separate signs for English grammatical endings and the use of characteristics of American Sign Language were found. Deaf teachers deleted far fewer signs and used more elements of ASL while the inexperienced hearing teachers did the reverse. (Author/DB)

An observational study of effects of teaching behavior of deaf and hearing teachers on secondary deaf students' perception of the classroom environment found that a positive class attitude was associated with moderate monitoring of the students, persistence with students who did not understand the task and an overt and task-oriented reward…

A variation on microteaching, the use of videotaped feedback during training, is suggested as an efficient and effective way for improving teachers' communication ability with hearing impaired students. Manually encoding English within a system of simultaneous communication has improved the climate for communication in classrooms for…

To describe the procedures that teachers in classrooms using manual communication employ in order to get and maintain student attention, four secondary teachers were videotaped on three occasions over a two-week period. The use of a mixture of deaf adult signing behavior and spoken discourse markers is reported. (Author)

Multiple choice tests of preposition usage were given to 206 hearing-impaired adolescents. In general, they followed the predicted sequence but showed a greater ability to comprehend the manner of "grammatical" prepositions than would be expected. Three general principles for comprehension by deaf adolescents are proposed. (Author)

Parents of 192 deaf adolescents responded to a survey regarding their decisions about modes and patterns of family communication. Mothers were found to dominate the decision processes, with key decision-making factors being the child's degree of hearing loss, child's mode of preschool education, and mother's level of education. (Author/PB)

This survey of a national sample of 451 deaf adolescents found that many factors predicting attrition in general education also apply to deaf education. These include individual ability, local educational values, and demographic traits. Regional differences were also found, with programs in the southeast and southwest losing more students than…

Evaluation of the dialogue journals kept by 153 deaf students in pairs of deaf and hearing students (grades 4-12) in 10 public school districts found an improvement in the quality of the writing of the deaf students over time and changes in content and syntactic complexity. (DB)

The families of 325 adolescents with deafness were surveyed to assess the relationship between the communication modes used by families and family cohesion. The mother's use of sign language predicted family cohesion, and the child's degree of hearing loss and mode of communication predicted the mother's use of sign language. (Author/JDD)

Data from a longitudinal study of 451 deaf adolescents found racial, gender, and possibly social class effects in their education. Some evidence also suggested interaction of these effects. The study supports consideration of the concept of race in relation to deaf education, in terms of parental income, educational attainment, and language…