Investigated with 296 hearing impaired young adults and adults was the effect of delay between auditory and visual aspects of the speech message in an oral-manual interpreting situation. (Author/CL)

Investigated was ability of adolescent deaf students to comprehend language under three conditions: lipreading with voice, the Rochester method, and total communication. (KW)

Limitations in the education of hearing impaired children are seen as not likely to be removed by instigation of manual communication. (KW)

In 1967 the Florida School for the Deaf adopted the Rochester Method (using fingerspelling as a more visible supplement to speech and lipreading). (LS)

The manual is intended as a course resource to help hearing secondary students learn to communicate with deaf peers or family members. The total communication approach is described and reasons for its use advanced. An introductory section explains the philosophy, general goals, and program objectives of the course. Ten lesson plans are then…

To expand sign language for simultaneous use along with fingerspelling and speech, signs were created for English terms frequently used in the classroom. Those signs judged very good or excellent in clarity and appearance were retained and selected ones taught by closed circuit television to Gallaudet students. Entering preparatory students…

A six-year longitudinal evaluation was made of the effectiveness of the various early intervention strategies being emphasized in seven preschool programs for hearing-impaired children. (Author/DLS)

The article reviews augmentative and alternative communication symbol classifications reported in the literature over the past decade. The "aided/unaided" dichotomy (based on user production of the symbol) is proposed as the superordinate level of classification, rather than the "static/dynamic" (based on transmission of…

Excerpted from the biography of Alexander G. Bell (BELL: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude) are portions dealing with Bell's encouragement of oral education for the deaf. (DB)

Analyzed are some common features of three studies on manual communication which cause the author to doubt whether manual communication does best prepare hearing impaired children for the hearing world, as the studies would imply. (KW)

Computer graphics representing the alphabet used by deaf persons for manual communication were used in the FINGEX experiment, which measured Ss' ability to read fingerspelled sentences at different rates of speed, and in the CONFUS experiment, which measured similarities between fingerspelled characters by assessing confusion caused by rapid…

The study evaluated the prevalence of stuttering in the current hearing-impaired school age population through a survey of 77 schools for the hearing impaired. Results indicated that the prevalence of stuttering in this population is 0.12 percent and that manual disfluency is perceived to be more prevalent than oral disfluency. (Author/DB)