A Follow-Up Study of the Deaf [electronic resource] / P. A. Reich and C. M. Reich.

Followed up through interviews and questionnaires were 278 former students, average age 28 years, of two residential schools and one day school for the deaf in Ontario. Data was collected on the degree of hearing loss, use of a hearing aid, educational and occupational history, social integration, m...

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Main Author: Reich, P. A.
Corporate Author: University of Toronto
Other Authors: Reich, C. M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1974.
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520 |a Followed up through interviews and questionnaires were 278 former students, average age 28 years, of two residential schools and one day school for the deaf in Ontario. Data was collected on the degree of hearing loss, use of a hearing aid, educational and occupational history, social integration, methods of communication, and attitudes toward school. A reading and writing test were also administered. Some of the data indicated that most former students has English speaking, normally hearing parents; that 88% of the predominantly prelingually deafened graduates were profoundly deaf; that slightly more than half of the former students had ever used a hearing aid; that school attendance averaged 13.3 years; that employment of deaf men were similar to employment of hearing men, although the rate of advancement and salary raise were lower; that half of the former students (all all over 35 years of age) were married; that 61% of married former students had children; that 18% of the graduates had hearing friends; that speech, writing, and reading skills were low; that 80% of former students used signing, fingerspelling, and total communication; and that day students were more oral than residential students. Approximately half the former students suggested that manual communication be introduced to the school curriculum whereas 21% of the graduates requested higher academic standards. (MC) 
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