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)

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)

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…

Preposition usage by students at a secondary school for the deaf was examined in Ss' response to a videotape showing a young woman using Signed English with a voiceover. A descriptive essay was collected in response to a question she posed. Essays were typed verbatim into computer storage and then coded for grammatical features using a multiple…

Interviews with 44 teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing in resource room programs concerning their physical, social, and administrative isolation revealed five types of teaching experiences varying in the types of isolation experienced and teacher reactions to this isolation. (DB)

Reports an experiment in which 16 deaf adolescents were shown a 10-minute videotaped lecture and were interviewed about its contents. Results indicate that the group which retained the most knowledge of the structure of the material was best able to recall the content of the lecture. (Author/SED)

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)

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)

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)

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…

Surveyed discipline referral forms and records of five residential schools for the deaf. Reading ability followed by hearing loss, age, and sex of the student predicted discipline problems. The "typical problem" student would be a younger male who was a poorer reader and had a less severe hearing loss. (Author/BL)

This article describes a dialog writing project which has involved hundreds of deaf students exchanging journals with hearing peers. A class of hearing-impaired students is paired with students from a general classroom, and dialog journals are physically exchanged. Practical pointers for developing and implementing the program are given. (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)

This article examines literature on deaf interpreting in school settings and reviews guidelines for educational interpreters from 15 school districts, noting discrepancies between guideline recommendations, what actually occurs in classrooms, and what research has found concerning: (1) production of the message by the interpreter; (2) reception of…

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…