To determine the inquiry strategies which would be acquired by deaf children involved in a science-oriented inquiry development program based on J. Suchman's discrepant event approach, 27 deaf students aged 10 to 13, in five groups, responded to eight discrepant events related to the science topic of heat. (Author)

Nonhandicapped preschool children (N=21) were interviewed about a variety of topics related to deafness and deaf people. Most of the preschoolers expressed at least minimal awareness of deafness. (Author)

Examined was a simple pitch detector and tactile display that proved effective in correcting a common intonation problem of deaf speakers. (Author)

The communication practices and attitudes toward communication of 557 mainstreamed, hearing impaired adolescents were investigated. The data indicated that these adolescents adapted their communication styles to fit the person with whom they are communicating, that they feel reasonably successful communicating with hearing people, but that the…

Results of a study involving 15 normally hearing and 15 hearing impaired 12-year-olds supported the cognitive basis of a language development curriculum for hearing impaired children. (CL)

Ninety-eight children and their parents from the same metropolitan population as a 1966 study participated in an evaluation of the condition of hearing aids. The new data indicated little improvement in the maintenance or wearing time of hearing aids since the earlier study. (Author)

Sixteen measures thought to be related to the intelligibility of speech of hearing impaired children were examined with 42 deaf children (aged 4 to 19). Results indicated that intelligibility of speech was correlated with several parameters not conventionally used in speech assessment (breath control, suprasegmental perception and production,…

A preliminary study was conducted with parents of 10 hearing impaired children (4-7 years old) to explore the hypothesis that there are family characteristics that distinguish earlier and later detectors of deafness in a child. (Author)

Twenty-five noisemakers were analyzed with regard to amplitude versus frequency to determine their potential effectiveness for use in pediatric audiological evaluations. (Author)

Evaluated was a co-parent program for hearing impaired elementary school children attending a state school for the deaf but unable to reside with their parents. (DB)

Three experiments were conducted which tested the orosensory acuity (or cutaneous sense acuity) and form discrimination via tactual perception of congenitally deaf secondary school students. (Author)