Sixty severely and profoundly deaf children were involved in a study to measure their voluntary pitch control and to investigate the relationship between this skill and the variables of age, sex, hearing loss, habitual pitch, and overall speech intelligibility. Subjects were asked to match three pitch levels and hold them for 10 seconds. Results…

Described is a program of research into sensory aids for the deaf, emphasizing research on factors involved in the effective use of sensory aids rather than evaluation of particular devices. Aspects of the program are the development of a programed testing and training unit, the control of fundamental voice frequency using visual feedback, and…

To identify the status of public knowledge about mental retardation, to discern public attitudes, and to obtain demographic information on attitudes, a questionnaire was submitted to approximately 1,515 subjects. Extensive results are reported by generic presentation of total responses, analysis of data by independent variables, and analysis of…

The report is concerned with the activities of a 3 year pilot project of an educational evaluation and programing unit for children with auditory disorders. The educational evaluation process, the programs and problems of implementation, dissemination, other project activities and an evaluation of the project are discussed. Appendixes cover such…

To compare social versus mechanical presentation of stimulus material under prompted or trial-and-error (confirmation) conditions of learning, institutionalized educable and trainable mentally handicapped children were tested on a discrimination learning task. Results were felt to indicate that social reinforcement may not be as motivating for…

To evaluate the effectiveness of low-frequency amplification, three classrooms were equipped in an experimental design in which the teacher spoke simultaneously through two different amplifying systems, a low-frequency auditory training unit (Suvag I) and a conventional unit (Warren T-2). Thirty preschool deaf children were matched and assigned to…

The Annual Survey of Hearing Impaired Children and Youth (1971-72) obtained information on 42,513 students enrolled in 636 preschool, elementary, and secondary educational programs for the hearing impaired. Data were gathered on the number of hearing impaired students with additional handicapping conditions, the types of conditions reported, the…

Contained in the supplement to the final report (EC062716) on intelligence test modifications for speech and motor handicapped children (such as retarded or cerebral palsied) are directions for the modified test, the modified stimuli, and the record booklets used in the research projects. Noted are the nonverbal and multiple choice design of the…

Analysis of the relationship between the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and Stanford Binet (SB) test age and standard scores of mentally handicapped children of chronological ages 3, 4, 5, and 6 years indicated uniform underestimation of SB by the PPVT at the lower performance levels. Regression equations for determining SB from PPVT were…

Twenty seven educable retarded children (ages 11 to 16) were divided into three groups based on learning potential status: highscorers, gainers, and nongainers. A dexterity test and a mirror drawing of a six-pointed star were administered, the latter in a stress-producing manner. Learning potential status mainly predicted the rate of learning on…

Hypotheses accounting for the pattern of deficits in specific developmental dyslexia were examined. The theory postulates that the disorder reflects a lag in maturation of the central nervous system, particularly the left cerebral hemisphere. The hypotheses in question predicted that skills developing ontogenetically earlier (visual-motor and…

The functions of special education counselors were ranked in order of decreasing importance by educators in public schools throughout Texas. Questionnaires were mailed to 198 educators in 25 school districts; 79% of the subjects participated. Participating were 45 special education counselors, 19 directors of special education, 50 principals…

The selected bibliography on drug therapy contains approximately 46 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings, as of August, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the criteria of availability of…

Examined was the relationship between dependency behavior and learning in educable mentally retarded (EMR) children. Population included 120 subjects equally divided by sex into two groups of retardates and normals and subdivided into socially reinforced and non-reinforced Ss. The task measured overt or instrumental dependency (ID). Electronic…

The feasibility of employing hearing college students as tutor/notetakers for deaf students was examined with 25 deaf and 10 hearing students. Hearing Ss were given an intensive training program in manual communications, notetaking, and tutoring, and assigned to take notes for and tutor the deaf Ss who were enrolled in classes for the hearing.…