The learning center is a cost-effective and popular way to introduce hearing impaired students and their teachers to microcomputers. (A brief listing of software companies and computer periodicals is included.) The use of the Apple microcomputer in a learning center in a school for the deaf is discussed. (CL)

Sixty-four residential schools for the deaf were surveyed regarding ten aspects of career education programs, including objectives, details of program implementation, program content, special needs, environmental factors, and occupational choices. (DLS)

A critique of the article "Experiential Deprivation: Unresolved Factor in the Impoverished Socialization of Deaf School Children in Residence" by D. Evans is presented. (Author)

"An Open Letter to My Colleagues", a satirical treatment of a serious problem, primarily written for superintendents of public day school classes, cautions against programing for deaf children on an emotional rather than an educational basis. (Author)

Briefly described is a model for inservice training of personnel who will be involved in providing a rich afterclass hours learning environment designed to foster social and educational growth in aurally handicapped children. (CB)

A survey of superintendents of residential schools for the deaf in the United States sought to evaluate perceptions of appropriate goals and planning procedures for effective inservice programs for dormitory counselors. Among other findings, superintendents placed a high value on the use of inservice education to help counselors learn techniques…

Using information collected by the Office of Demographic Studies in its 1977-78 Annual Survey of Hearing Impaired Children and Youth and from a 1974 special studies survey, this study examines the similarities and differences between day and resident students at residential schools for the deaf. The students at residential schools on a day basis…

The handbook is intended to aid residential schools for deaf children in establishing comprehensive staff development programs. Stressed is the importance of involving all staff members including administrators, teachers, and dormitory counselors in the provision of an integrated 24-hour-a-day learning environment. The handbook is said to be…

Administered the Performance Scale of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) to 60 female and 65 male hearing-impaired subjects. Found a significant sex difference on the Coding subtest, with females outperforming males. Deaf females possessed significantly better visual-motor coordination and speed, while males demonstrated…

A reanalysis of 1981 data on teachers' hearing status and ethnic backgrounds and a recent survey of 73 public residential schools for deaf students revealed an extremely small number of Black deaf teachers. Implications of this finding and of differences in Black deaf signs are considered. (CL)

Two groups of elementary level teachers (N=96) of six- to 12-year-old hearing-impaired students in residential and regular public school programs had significantly different perceptions regarding 19 of the 45 competencies and were highly distinguishable across items. (Author)

All hearing aids worn by 113 children in the first five grade levels of the Kansas School for the Deaf were evaluated by means of a visual inspection and listening test. (Author)