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Moores, Donald F. – Sign Language Studies, 2006
Responding to Johnston's projections for the future of Australian Sign Language (Auslan), I analyzed school enrollments in American educational programs and found similar trends. There are fewer deaf and hard of hearing children in school now than twenty years ago, with the largest decline, approximately 50 percent, among children with profound…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Enrollment Trends, Assistive Technology, Deafness
Menser, Margaret A. – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1977
Briefly described are four studies currently being undertaken in Australia to determine the effectiveness of vaccination in the prevention of rubella and to examine the relationship between rubella and diabetes. (CL)
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Diabetes, Exceptional Child Research, Foreign Countries
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Johnston, Trevor – Sign Language Studies, 2006
According to enrollments in schools for the deaf and data from the national census and neonatal hearing screening programs, the incidence of severe and profound childhood deafness in Australia is, and has been, less than commonly assumed. Factors implicated include improved medical care, mainstreaming, cochlear implants, and genetic science. Data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Population Trends, Genetics