The Rochester Institute of Technology is a unique environment; a large number of hearing-impaired students are enrolled on a predominately hearing campus. The authors of this article explored the integration of deaf and hearing students on the campus and the attitudes surrounding deaf-hearing relationships. The major factors that hearing students ...

Eighty-one patients with 91 partial ruptures of the patellar ligament verified by ultrasonography were treated conservatively with a standardized training program based on the principles of eccentric loading. The partial ruptures were quantified by measuring the length of the hypoechoic lesion using ultrasonography in longitudinal projection. The partial ruptures were ...

Radio-telemetry was used to monitor movements and mortality of 56 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in response to intensive military training activities on West Range (18,000 ha), Fort Sill Military Reservation, Oklahoma. Cause-specific mortality was determined for 22 radio-collared deer, including adults (greater than or equal to 2.0-yr-old), yearlings (0.6-1.9-yr-old), and ...

The purpose of this study was to examine biochemical and physiological responses to musical stimuli. Specifically, university music and biology students' plasma levels of norepinephrine, endorphin, and cortisol, and their galvanic skin responses were measured before and after listening to two different musical selections in an anechoic chamber and during ...

The University of Maryland was the first program in the state to offer chorionic villus sampling (CVS). Since the program's beginning in 1984, 998 patients have been seen with successful sampling in 99.1 percent, using both transcervical and transabdominal approaches. The overall loss rate was quite low (2.3 percent), and ...

To determine contemporary thinking regarding initial counseling of hearing-impaired adults 500 questionnaires were mailed to otologists and otolaryngologists and 500 to clinical audiologists. Usable questionnaires total 136 for the former group and 266 for the latter. Some significant differences were found in the ways clinicians saw themselves as counselors and ...

Public Law 99-457 has renewed interest in providing preschool education for hearing-impaired children. It is not clear, however, whether we're ready for this mandate to expand services to an ever-younger population and its families. This study presents a "snapshot" of the trends in preschool programs and of the availability of ...

How can the development of an ordered array of neuronal connections be encoded in the genome? Results on the establishment of sensory connections in insects indicate that this programming is a multi-stepped process which begins as soon as the first axons develop. Because each step relies on the previous level ...

In the last few years, a clinical consensus has emerged regarding the necessary components of an early management program for hearing-impaired children. Early detection of hearing loss, a parent-infant and supervised nursery program, and optimal amplification provisions are among these components. This paper explores the possible implications for those profoundly ...

Presbyacusis, the auditory disorder which accompanies the aging process, is well known. However, the practical assistance available to alleviate the breakdown in the communication ability of the older person is unsatisfactory, and provision for public awareness of a rehabilitation strategy has not yet been established in many countries. Four hundred ...

Data on academic success were analyzed for 37 hearing-impaired pupils who had been trained by the Written-Oral Language Method before school age. Seventy-one percent of pupils whose average hearing level was less than 89 dB and 77% of pupils whose hearing was 90 to 120 dB succeeded academically. Degree of ...

The authors studied the effect of multiple threshold determinations on local and global (root-mean-square) short-term fluctuation in 30 subjects (10 controls, 10 glaucoma suspects, and 10 glaucoma patients) with a mean age of 56.70 years. Five custom programs were designed on the Octopus perimeter in which the total number of ...

This study examined 1984 monitoring audiometric data from U.S. Navy (military and civilian) employees whose workplace required a mandatory hearing conservation program. Median hearing thresholds were compared in U.S. Navy employees, U.S. Army employees also monitored by a hearing conservation program, and a standard population from the First National Health ...

Many hearing-impaired students demonstrate difficulty in academically measuring up to their hearing peers. The deficiencies become especially obvious during their secondary school years. This study surveyed a national sample of elementary and secondary level teachers of the hearing impaired to compare their perceptions of the competencies needed to work with ...

The prevalence of hearing impairment in university students was determined from a 6-year, pure-tone hearing screening conducted at 20 dB HL for the octave frequencies from 500 to 4000 Hz. Of the 18,424 students tested, 1.2 percent failed the screening. The ratio of unilateral to bilateral hearing impairment was found ...

Training hearing-impaired persons in independent living skills has become a focus of education and rehabilitation programs for the hearing impaired. Yet, few programs and assessment instruments are designed to evaluate a person's potential for acquiring independent living skills. In this study, the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale was used to classify ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a model of direct communication in American Sign Language for mainstreamed adult education courses. The model uses an individual instruction format with limited lecture time. Data were collected for 23 students (12 hearing and 11 deaf) newly enrolled in a mainstreamed word ...

Hearing-impaired students have trouble with question forms, a fact that is well-documented. To date, the implications of this linguistic difficulty on their reading comprehension have been virtually unexplored. This article discusses the importance of questions as a means of acquiring and clarifying information and as a way to develop independent ...

An examination of experimental learning models revealed that they all refer to the critical component of processing. The authors define processing as an activity that is employed to encourage students to reflect, describe, analyze, and communicate in some way that which was recently experienced. The authors describe a cognitive processing ...

A group of prelinguistically hearing impaired children, between 7 and 11 years of age, were trained in the perception of vowel duration and place, the fricative /s/, and manner of articulation (/m/ vs /b/ and /s/ vs /t/) distinctions, using information provided by a multiple-channel electrotactile aid (Tickle Talker), and ...

Three programs (female voice, jazz music, and pink noise) were reproduced using four different frequency responses and two different sound levels. Fourteen normal hearing subjects listened to the reproduction via earphones and judged the sound quality on seven perceptual scales (loudness, clarity, fullness, spaciousness, brightness, softness/gentleness, and nearness) and a ...

This study investigated the factors used by teachers of the hearing impaired in identifying the reading interests of their students. It also examined the accuracy of their judgments in comparison to students' responses on a reading interest inventory. Twenty teachers of the hearing impaired were asked to judge the top ...

In previous work done in our laboratory, we have investigated the perceived pitch class of isolated musical triads. We have found that as the amount of musical training increased, listeners perceptions progress, from very confused percepts of pitch class, to analytic percepts corresponding to the pitch class of the highest ...

A survey of vocational/technical schools in Massachusetts was performed to evaluate the prevalence of and need for hearing conservation programs. The surveys were sent to the superintendents or principals of all 27 regional schools in Massachusetts. Surveys consisted of questions in the areas of shop noise exposure, use of safety ...

A carefully conceptualized and well-organized evaluation system can provide important information about students' writing abilities. By measuring students' skill proficiency before instruction, teachers can begin a program with an accurate picture of their students' strengths and areas of concern in writing. This article presents an overview of several ways to ...

This article provides information on the educational problems and needs of hearing-impaired students from three major multi-cultural groups, the Afro-American, Hispanic, and Asian. The focus is upon identification and programming for these needs within the public school system, based especially upon experience within the San Diego City Schools. The factors ...

A training procedure is described which seems appropriate to help severe to profound hearing-impaired subjects to make better use of their residual hearing. The training starts from the assumption that an auditory training is possible, which is based on the enhancement of certain acoustic cues that are still above threshold, ...

The current study examined the relationship between hearing-impaired students' (N = 20) ability to write syntactically correct sentences (Noun + Verb + Where and Noun + Verb + Noun) in two formats, one structured and one unstructured. Two sentence-generating tasks were administered as operational measures of the structured format. A ...

With the emphasis on quality assurance and patient satisfaction in health care, decision making in rehabilitative audiology is a critical issue. Traditionally, rehabilitative decisions have been based on questionable assessment procedures and unproven treatment methods. In this paper, current strategies for decision making with hearing-impaired adults will be presented. Discussion ...

Students need educational programs which foster maximum development of their personal knowledge, skill, and competence. To accomplish this, they should have access to a well-balanced curriculum, effective instruction and opportunities to succeed. In accordance with this philosophy, the 67th and 68th Legislatures of the State of Texas (1981-1984) established rules ...

Two linguistic microstructures, propositions and cohesive devices, were analyzed in story recalls by 11 primary and intermediate level hearing-impaired students. The students were enrolled in total communication, public day classes, and had severe-to-profound hearing losses. Four story conditions were presented: (1) easy structure--T.C.; (2) complex structure--T.C.; (3) complex structure with ...

As a result of well-known recent federal mandates for appropriate special education to all disabled students, the majority of children who are hearing impaired currently are educated in public school settings, along with hearing students. Consequently, teachers of students who are hearing impaired have expanded their role to include the ...

Hearing-impaired students are known to encounter significant difficulty achieving appreciable levels of academic achievement. Recently, many professionals have advanced the concept that some hearing-impaired students' lag in achievement may owe to learning disabilities in addition to hearing impairment. Definitional differences, survey data and studies are discussed in an exploration of ...

The dynamics of vestibular nystagmus were measured in 42 military student pilots (age 19 to 21). Their responses were compared with 40 non-flying subjects of similar age who were also fulfilling requirements for the mandatory Swiss military service. The following differences emerged: the time constant of the nystagmus response after ...

To study the prevalence of hearing loss among teen-aged farm children in central Wisconsin, audiometric threshold testing of 872 vocational agriculture students was carried out over a three-year period. The results indicate an increased prevalence of hearing loss among students actively involved in farm work, as compared to their peers ...

It takes a special kind of determination and drive to succeed in self-employment. Natural artistic talent does not necessarily mean you are qualified to run a business. Today help is at hand. Books, teaching programmes and courses abound. For those who have been out of work for at least 8 ...

1. More than eight million workers in the United States are affected by some noise-induced hearing loss. Noise pollution is a significant health hazard in the workplace today. 2. Occupational health nurses are in a key position to make tremendous contributions to the effectiveness of a hearing conservation program. 3. ...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the reasons why hearing-impaired students describe their high school experiences as positive or negative and to identify the specific classroom dynamics that contribute to or detract from social development. Data were collected from 49 hearing-impaired undergraduate students who were asked to ...

The present study was designed to examine receptive learning of 30 ASL signs using two teaching modes. Subjects were 28 college students with normal hearing, naive to sign language, who were trained under computer-assisted instruction (CAI) or through videotaped presentation (VT). The results indicated significantly (p less than .01) higher ...

Much has been written about the merits, needs, adequacy, and effectiveness of hearing conservation programs but very little about the cost of noise-induced hearing loss. Using claims for hearing loss submitted to a Canadian compensation board for a 5-years period (1979 to 1983), we estimated the current cost per claim ...

The purpose of the present study was to identify and analyze predictors of speech production performance of hearing-impaired children. Teachers' ratings of 327 elementary school hearing-impaired students were studied in relation to demographic characteristics of the students, parental demographic characteristics, and educational treatment parameters. Better performance was found to be ...

This study, involving 215 students and 63 teachers, addressed three concerns related to mainstreaming for hearing imparied students: the selection process, the difference between a mainstream placement with an interpreter and a self-contained placement, and the quality of the educational experience. Almost half of the variance in achievement between the ...

An experiment is described in which people with auditory hallucinations were brought into contact with each other. On an evening television talk show, a patient--diagnosed several times as having schizophrenia--talked about her voices. Four hundred and fifty people who also were hearing voices reacted to the program by telephone. A ...

This rule revises existing regulations governing the Health Professions Student Loan (HPSL) program to implement amendments made to the Public Health Service Act (the Act) by the Health Professions Training Assistance Act of 1985, to clarify the definition of "default," add a paragraph on reallocation of funds, and establish hearing ...

Until very recently, aural rehabilitation programs designed specifically for workers with occupational hearing loss were nonexistent in the Province of Quebec. A pilot study has been conducted to test and develop suitable services for these workers and their spouses, and to explore the factors causing them to seek (or on ...

Three hundred sixty hearing-impaired students were screened for visual problems, including Usher's syndrome, with a complete ophthalmologic exam and electroretinography (ERG). Over 25% were found to have a significant refractive error, and approximately 32% had one or more pathologic findings. Overall, 43% either had a significant refractive error or pathologic ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the summary writing skills of hearing-impaired and normally hearing college students. Summarization was defined in terms of the following measures: deletion of trivial text information, inclusion of most important ideas, selection of topic sentences, creation of topic statements, and integration of information ...

Hearing conservation programs have not kept pace with changes in the workplace and in the work force. Heavy industry and noisy factories have yielded to quiet computers and high technology. Chemicals, self-administered or prescribed, may replace noise as a chief source of hearing loss. The aging working population and the ...

Medical student impairment is recognized as a serious problem. Many medical schools attempt to treat or prevent impairment through the use of educational programs. However, the effectiveness of this method has not been tested. A major difficulty is that impaired students are often unwilling to seek help. I hypothesized that ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of stuttering in the current hearing-impaired school age population. Backus (1938) and Harms and Malone (1939) found a low incidence of stuttering in the hearing-impaired population in surveys conducted almost 50 years ago. Those surveys asked for information only on ...