The major goals of this communication textbook for hearing impaired students are to illustrate that public speaking is an activity for hearing impaired persons, to discuss public speaking techniques unique to hearing impaired communicators, and to facilitate comprehension of content by special learning devices. Separate chapters deal with public…

This book was designed to meet five specific criteria which allow development of a course parallel to the treatment of the book's subject matter, active student involvement in testing and developing their own nonverbal communication capacities, delineation and analysis of the functional capacity of different nonverbal communication systems, an…