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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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Timperlake, Benna Hull; Sanders, Genelle Timperlake – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2014
In some ways raising deaf or hard of hearing children is no different than raising hearing children; expectations must be established and periodically tweaked. Benna Hull Timperlake, who with husband Roger, raised two hearing children in addition to their deaf daughter, Genelle Timperlake Sanders, and Genelle, now a deaf professional, share their…
Descriptors: Expectation, Parenting Skills, Parenting Styles, Partial Hearing
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Santini, Joseph – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2014
This article describes a teachers reflections on the matter of student expectations. Santini begins with a common understanding of the "Pygmalion effect" from research projects conducted in earlier years that intimated "people's expectations could influence other people in the world around them." In the world of deaf…
Descriptors: Expectation, Reflection, Teacher Expectations of Students, Deafness
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Zellner, Travis – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2013
Obtaining appropriate special education and related services to establish the best educational environment--academically and socially--has not only been challenging but also downright daunting. The decisions the author has made supporting his children, 6-year-old James who is deaf and 12-year-old Miia who is hard of hearing, are, in part, derived…
Descriptors: Deafness, Partial Hearing, American Sign Language, Early Intervention