Deaf Identity: High-School-Level Students at a School for the Deaf

Visual status of deaf school students in Kathmandu, Nepal.

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOL 18 NO. 56 | DECEMBER 2005 Slit lamp video system, as seen from the examiner’s side. The forehead rest band has been removed to show the essential structures more clearly S ye d Am ja d N iz vi The camcorder is fixed to it by means of a screw into the tripod mounting socket. The adaptor is fixed to the arm of the biomicroscope carriage (Figure 2). The screws ar...

The Calcutta Deaf and Dumb School

The Deaf Child: A Manual for Teachers and School Doctors

By James Kerr Love, M.D. Pp. vi, 192. Bnsto1' John Wright & Sons Ltd. 1911. j." fi C Much of this book is a reasoned appeal for a more scien ^ application of existing educational methods in the training the deaf child and a clinical basis is laid down with that pu^P ^ in view. The art of teaching the deaf is not described in de ^ but the basic principles upon which that art is founded j -consid...

Assessing aspects of creativity in deaf and hearing high school students.

To address the paucity of current research on the development of creativity in deaf students, and to extend existing research to adolescents, the present study investigated divergent thinking, a method of assessing creativity, in both deaf and hearing adolescents. We assessed divergent thinking in two domains, figural and verbal, while also adjusting the instructional method in written format, ...

The appropriateness of the NC state-mandated reading competency test for deaf students as a criterion for high school graduation.

Deaf students consistently score lower on standardized measures of reading comprehension than their hearing peers. Most of the studies that have been conducted to explain this phenomenon have focused on variables within the reader, and important differences have been found between deaf and hearing readers. More recently, in the face of increasingly high-stakes consequences, researchers are look...