In recent years, increasing attention has been given to the development of deaf children, though few studies have included Deaf parents. The present study examined emotional availability (EA) and functions of touch used by Deaf or hearing parents with hearing or deaf infants during free play. Sixty dyads representing four hearing status groups…

An analysis of 4,887 U.S. teachers of the deaf indicated that the teachers tended to be young, female, married, White, and well educated. Data were compared with results of a similar study of public school teachers. Teachers of the hearing impaired differed from public school teachers in several respects, including age, sex, marital status,…

The ability to understand English words in print was tested in 376 normal and hearing impaired students (ages 10-14 years). (Author/DLS)

The study investigated whether the lower audible frequencies (often perceived by the deaf) contained sufficient prosodic features for 32 normal hearing listeners to correctly identify the intended emotions of the speakers. (Author)

A study involving deaf and hearing children investigated the perceptual abilities of deaf children employing tasks with both simultaneously and sequentially presented stimulus material. A series of motion picture tests, mostly involving abstract geometric figures, suggested that deaf and hearing children are comparable on visual memory tasks and…

The survey investigated psychological services available in 95 schools and programs for hearing impaired children in New York State and New England states. The results indicated that most institutions provide psychological services and that the providers of such services perform similar roles. (Author)

One year after the first evaluation, teachers rated 18 hearing impaired children on their frequency of use of the Signed English markers. On the average, the group showed a slight improvement in their use of the marker system. Additionally, frequency of use of each of the 14 markers was also rated by the teachers. (Author)

The study matched two groups of 20 deaf pupils on their pre-exposure knowledge of information contained in a televised film, with and without captions. (Author)

The speechreading performance of 22 hearing impaired students (mean age 6.3 years) was analyzed to determine differences in performance acros word, phrase, and sentence stimuli. Ss speechread words more easily than sentences or phrases. (CL)

One hundred eighty-seven students, enrolled in three elementary and secondary schools for the deaf, viewed a one-half-hour commercial television program captioned at 60, 90, or 120 words per minute and at increasing levels of linguistic complexity. (Author)