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Peer reviewedShaw, Pamela Carson – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1994
This article recounts a learning experience at the Kansas State School for the Deaf in which students invited an author of children's books about deaf children, Jean Andrews, to visit and participated with the author in developing her next book. Students also wrote their own books, and received feedback on them from Andrews. (DB)
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Creative Writing
Peer reviewedWilson, Cathy – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1997
Discusses the results of interviews with 23 teenagers with deafness, which examined their preference for residential or mainstreamed schools. Findings indicate the students supported a mixed placement pattern because it gave them a well-rounded education and knowledge of both deaf and hearing environments, and satisfied their developmental needs.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Deafness, Inclusive Schools, Interviews
Peer reviewedPrice, Jon C. – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1992
A residential school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students developed family living units for some students. Program features include student diversity as a selection factor, a teaching-parent couple in each unit, food acquired from the school kitchen but prepared and eaten in the unit, and close communication between teachers and teaching parents.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Environment
Peer reviewedJohnston, Edna – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1997
Discusses a survey of 115 high school students who are deaf or hard of hearing, which examined the pros and cons of mainstreaming. Results found that center schools offered a stronger representation of deaf culture and that more residential students than mainstream students were satisfied with their school experience overall. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Culture Contact, Deafness, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedBailes, Cynthia Neese – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1998
Provides suggestions to promote English literacy to students with hearing impairments in residential environments. Strategies include model reading and writing, read to children regularly and in American Sign Language, set up a writing center, encourage book sharing, set up a home library/reading center, and encourage ownership of books. (CR)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedHarkins, Judith E.; Virvan, Barbara – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1995
Describes Project TFA (Telecommunications For All), a 3-year research and demonstration project designed to bring modern text telecommunications technology into five classrooms of residential and day schools for deaf children. The project provided computers, software, online services, fax machines, advanced text telephones (TTY's), telephone…
Descriptors: Deafness, Demonstration Programs, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
