THE DIRECTORY CONTAINS INFORMATION FOR THE DEAF AND PERSONS WORKING WITH THE DEAF. CERTIFIED TEACHERS OF THE DEAF (INCLUDING CANADA) AND STUDENT TEACHERS (BY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY) ARE LISTED. PERSONS TEACHING COURSES ON EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND TEACHERS COLLEGES ARE LISTED ALONG WITH PERTINENT INFORMATION. A DIRECTORY OF SERVICES INCLUDES…

Seventeen widely diverse students participated in the speech and hearing therapy program for a total of 420 hours. It was an individualized program utilizing Infra-Code equipment; the primary goal in 12 of the 17 cases was speech production. The remaining five had normal speech and requested auditory training. The bulk of the report consists of…

The language of the deaf has only recently become an area of concern for linguists. Of special interest are questions of the systematicity of deaf speech (is it systematic or idiosyncratic and none-rule-governed?) and the nature of its deviation from the speech of hearing people. The study presented here is an effort on the part of linguists,…

This speech inventory used in a study of aurally handicapped children (see TM 001 129) measures lipreading ability. The 33-item inventory represents a meaningful sample of phonemes in Standard American English. This measure can be presented either live or by 16 millimeter film. See also TM 001 130, 131, and 133. (CK)

This speech inventory developed for a study of aurally handicapped preschool children (see TM 001 129) provides information on intonation patterns in connected speech. The inventory consists of a list of phrases and simple sentences accompanied by pictorial clues. The test is individually administered by a teacher-examiner who presents the spoken…

The Verbotonal method of teaching the deaf (that is, training the deaf to make maximum use of their limited hearing) is considered in relation to the effect it has on verbal communication. Results from a sample of 50 nursery school students indicate that (1) the speech of the children taught by Verbotonal improved significantly more than did the…

This 44-item test developed for a study of aurally handicapped children (see TM 001 129) measures preschool speech production. It is a combination of 19 vocalization items and a 25-item word list. The test is individually administered by a teacher-examiner who presents the spoken stimulus to the child, with amplification but without lipreading…

This reaction form contains light open-ended questions designed to evaluate teacher attitudes toward the Verbotonal method which emphasizes training to help the deaf make maximum use of their limited hearing. The form was part of a study of aurally handicapped children (see TM 001 129). See also TM 001 130-132. (CK)