The article describes a review of educational records of 74 hearing-impaired students. Specific attention was focused on reports concerning psychological evaluations and their components and administration. It was concluded that psychological assessment was less than adequate. The need for skill remediation among school psychologists is then…

The effects of cochlear implants, devices to stimulate hearing, on speech discrimination, lipreading, and auditory contact are reviewed. This review highlights unresolved questions and considers the potential risks and benefits. It is suggested that future development of the cochlear implant should include educators of deaf children. (Author/CL)

Communication among hearing and hearing impaired professionals can be improved by attention to preparation factors (such as careful consideration of the arrangement of the meeting room), aspects of the conduct of the meeting (including discouraging side conversations), and wise use of interpreters. (CL)

Of the 342 surveyed programs, 82 percent responded, and 51 percent used microcomputers as an instructional tool. Results indicate a critical need for a software exchange among programs for hearing-impaired students, as well as in-service training and information-sharing programs. The survey information indicates the need for increased support for…

The paper reports the development and piloting of the Learning Environment Scale (LES), an instrument designed to measure the social environment of the classroom as perceived by hearing impaired students. The instrument contains categories relating to the communication environment of the classroom and to the students' feelings about themselves in…

A communication program for four families with a hearing-impaired child integrated positive communicative dimensions with issues related to this population. Findings indicate that the program had beneficial effects including improved awareness skills, the ability to label feelings and skills, increased perceptions of family cohesiveness, and…

The article provides guidelines for developing curriculum objectives for multiply involved hearing-impaired students. Emphasis is placed on procedures for establishing instructional priorities, assessing the learner against these priorities, selecting and using prosthetics to overcome learning and behavioral deficits, providing educational…

Three delivery systems with low versus high content structure were investigated in terms of immediate learning performance: captioned videotape, classroom instruction, and connected prose on paper. Results indicated that high content structure yielded significantly greater learning performance than low structure and that this performance occurred…

Receptive communication skills of 118 severely and profoundly deaf persons, (9-20 years old) were assessed by a multiple-choice pictorial test. The most efficient method of communication was found to be reading, followed by total communication and manual communication; oral methods were clearly the least effective. (Author/CL)

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 survey of interpreter training programs indicated that approximately 37 percent of the trainees are obtaining employment in public school settings, and a need is perceived for clarification of the role and responsibilities of such an interpreter and for training specific to this setting. (Author/CL)

Two groups of college students rated their perceptions/feelings toward older persons with hearing loss before and after listening to an audiotape designed to enhance empathy or to a tape merely informative in nature. Data suggested that the empathy tape was more effective in changing attitudes. (Author/CL)

The article describes how psychodrama is used in group psychotherapy and in social skills groups with deaf persons. In addition, videotape replay is described as an adjunct to psychodramatic treatment. (Author/CL)

Sixteen hearing-impaired children, aged 6 to 10 years, participated in a six-week posture and body awareness activity program. Pre- and posttests showed that the balance of the experimental group Ss improved, whereas the balance of the control group Ss did not improve. (Author/CL)

Test-retest coefficients computed over a five-year interval for the 1973 edition of the Stanford Achievement Test-Hearing Impaired Version (SAT-HI) generally reflect adequate stability for a national sample of hearing-impaired students. Yet, ethnic background was an important variable influencing stability, specifically for Black students.…