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Johnson, Donald D.; Caccamise, Frank – American Annals of the Deaf, 1983
The comparison of Orthorater vision tester and Snellen chart far visual acuity results for 261 National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) students. Results indicated that a rear illuminated Snellen chart is an acceptable alternative to the Orthorater for screening postsecondary, hearing impaired students' far visual acuity. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Hearing Impairments, Postsecondary Education, Screening Tests
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Romano, Paul E.; Berlow, Susan – American Annals of the Deaf, 1974
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments
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Pollard, Gerald; Neumaier, Richard – American Annals of the Deaf, 1974
Evaluated were the vision characteristics (refractive errors, eye coordination problems, and eye pathology) of 511 students at the California School for the Deaf. (Author/LS)
Descriptors: Deafness, Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research, Health
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Johnson, Donald D.; Whitehead, Robert L. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
Two groups of deaf college students, including 104 deaf from congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) and 138 deaf from other reasons, received complete audiometric assessments and ophthalmological examinations. Degree of hearing loss did not differ between groups. However, 7 visual problems were found to be more prevalent with the CRS population.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Epidemiology
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Thorn, Sondra; Thorn, Frank – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
Six hearing-impaired and 14 hearing adults, all with normal vision, viewed segments of captioned movies on television under 5 conditions of blur. The study found that, if a person has even a slight visual problem, the caption letters under normal television viewing conditions are too small for maximum reading performance. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Captions, Hearing Impairments