In recent years, increasing attention has been given to the development of deaf children, though few studies have included Deaf parents. The present study examined emotional availability (EA) and functions of touch used by Deaf or hearing parents with hearing or deaf infants during free play. Sixty dyads representing four hearing status groups…

In recent years, the number of children receiving cochlear implants who have significant disabilities in addition to their deafness has increased substantially. However, in comparison with the extensive literature on speech, language, and communication outcomes following pediatric implantation in children without complex needs, the available…

An analysis of 4,887 U.S. teachers of the deaf indicated that the teachers tended to be young, female, married, White, and well educated. Data were compared with results of a similar study of public school teachers. Teachers of the hearing impaired differed from public school teachers in several respects, including age, sex, marital status,…

The study investigated whether the lower audible frequencies (often perceived by the deaf) contained sufficient prosodic features for 32 normal hearing listeners to correctly identify the intended emotions of the speakers. (Author)

A study involving deaf and hearing children investigated the perceptual abilities of deaf children employing tasks with both simultaneously and sequentially presented stimulus material. A series of motion picture tests, mostly involving abstract geometric figures, suggested that deaf and hearing children are comparable on visual memory tasks and…

The study, which assessed the practicality of influencing the construal of grammatical relations by manipulation of a nonsyntactic variable, plausibility, indicated that the referential meaning of individual words can influence the construal of word combinations though the deaf need further training in the denotative and connotative meanings of…

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)

The study matched two groups of 20 deaf pupils on their pre-exposure knowledge of information contained in a televised film, with and without captions. (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)

The speechreading performance of 22 hearing impaired students (mean age 6.3 years) was analyzed to determine differences in performance acros word, phrase, and sentence stimuli. Ss speechread words more easily than sentences or phrases. (CL)

One hundred eighty-seven students, enrolled in three elementary and secondary schools for the deaf, viewed a one-half-hour commercial television program captioned at 60, 90, or 120 words per minute and at increasing levels of linguistic complexity. (Author)

The study demonstrates that, with a brief training period, deaf adolescents (N=8) can attain a high level of perceptual performance with a tactual speech system in discrimination of certain hard to lipread word pairs pronounced by both a male and a female speaker. (Author/SBH)