Reviewed are the 17 studies most widely quoted in support of the value of total communication and as evidence of the ineffectiveness of the oral approach for use with deaf students. (Author)

The author critically examines a number of assumptions concerning the nature of language and the process of language acquisition on which methods of deaf education in Britain are based. (LS)

Seventy-two deaf Ss (10- to 19-years-old) were tested, employing the Test of Syntactic Ability (TSA), the language sub-tests of the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT), and analyses of written language samples, in a study of the influence of early language and communication environment on their later syntactic language ability. Ss were divided into…

Considered in the paper, which originally was prepared for publication by the Moscow Institute of Defectology, are research and methodology related to education of deaf children in the United States. Described are deaf children's communicative problems, and defined are classifications according to varying degrees of deafness. Discussed is…