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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Rodd, Cathy; Young, Alys – Deafness and Education International, 2009
This study considers the process of prioritisation undertaken by Hearing Impaired (HI) Support Services in England in a context of change driven by early screening, early intervention and reform in children's services. The aim of prioritisation is to identify the relative needs of deaf children and their families fairly, transparently and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Deafness, School Districts, Change Strategies
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Young, Alys; Green, Lorraine; Rogers, Katherine – Deafness and Education International, 2008
The theoretical frameworks encompassed by resilience have scarcely been applied to an understanding of the experiences of deaf children and their families, nor to specific interventions in relation to this group. This article critically reviews mainstream (i.e. non-deaf-related) resilience literature to analyse its intersection with the concerns…
Descriptors: Definitions, Deafness, Risk, Personality
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Sutherland, Hilary; Young, Alys – Deafness and Education International, 2007
To date, much information about Sign Bilingualism, gleaned from parents and/or teachers, has been written from a strong hearing viewpoint. As deaf children should be the main beneficiaries from a Sign Bilingual Education, this project was designed to enable the children to recall their experiences and share their multi-aspect views with other deaf…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness, Bilingualism
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Young, Alys; Jones, David; Starmer, Clare; Sutherland, Hilary – Deafness and Education International, 2005
This article concerns parents' identification of the dilemmas and challenges involved in providing them with good information. Twenty parents (both Deaf and hearing) took part in focus groups to review the draft of a standard information folder for parents of newly diagnosed deaf children that was being developed by the National Deaf Children's…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Deafness, Parent Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
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McCracken, Wendy; Young, Alys; Tattersall, Helen; Uus, Kai; Bamford, John – Deafness and Education International, 2005
This article presents results related to the impact on educational support services of the introduction of the first phase of the national Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) in England. This study was funded by the Department of Health and undertaken as one element of a national evaluation of NHSP across a range of domains. It presents…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Hearing (Physiology)
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Young, Alys; Turner, Graham – Deafness and Education International, 2004
March 2004 saw the last in the ESRC-funded REMEDES seminar series. Its focus was research methodologies and problems of method in working within D/deaf studies. Its start point was to question whether there were conditions, characteristics and features of the field that present particular challenges and/or drive particular kinds of methodological…
Descriptors: Seminars, Educational Research, Technical Institutes, Research Methodology