The specialty preparation program within the speech-language pathology master's degree program at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, was designed to train speech-language pathologists to work with children who are deaf and hard of hearing, ages 0 to 21. The program is offered in collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology,…

Described are the background and results of use of a total communication approach (combining speech, speechreading, gestures, formal sign language, fingerspelling, printed word, cursive writing, and reading) with a non-deaf, mentally retarded boy (15-years-old) lacking communication skills. (LS)

The document provides information on the Lexington School for the Deaf inservice training project, COTTA (Community Oriented Teacher Training for Adolescents), which stresses techniques for working with severely handicapped/hearing impaired (SH/HI) adolescents in a community based, urban environment, teacher/counselor model. Part I contains an…

Described is a program for 110 multiply handicapped (deaf and emotionally disturbed) children between the ages of 5 and 18 years which utilizes behavior modification strategies. (DB)

Nine emotionally disturbed deaf children (aged 10 to 16 years) were served by a day class which had as its main objective the successful return of each child to a regular class for deaf children. (Author/DB)

The Sharing Shakespeare project at New York City's Public School for the Deaf developed a unique, elective, process-oriented literature class that combined teenage profoundly deaf students and culturally diverse, limited-English-proficient hearing students. Aided by multimedia technologies, these students collaborated in learning, reading, and…

This paper describes Riverside Medical Center's Minnesota Chemical Dependency Program for Hearing Impaired Youth, which began in Minneapolis in 1989 to serve chemically dependent hearing-impaired adolescents and young adults, primarily aged 16 to 25 but sometimes serving clients as young as 12. The paper offers a rationale for development of a…

This final report describes the activities and outcomes of OPTICA (Our Path Together Initiating Cultural Access) programs. For each program an information sheet indicates the goal, total participation, status of the goal, and activities of the program. Programs included: (1) Hands On: ASL Creative Story Telling, a program that used children's…

A SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT CREATED IN 1957 SERVES THE 25 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY. THE PHILOSOPHY AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES OF THE DISTRICT ARE PRESENTED. A DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES SERVES CHILDREN IN SPECIAL CLASSES IN THE SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AND POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR CLASSES, AND ALSO OPERATES A PROGRAM…