Itinerant Teacher for Severely Hearing Handicapped Children Enrolled in Regular Classrooms of Public Schools in a Rural Area: Pilot Study, 1963

(1963) Itinerant Teacher for Severely Hearing Handicapped Children Enrolled in Regular Classrooms of Public Schools in a Rural Area: Pilot Study, 1963. Education, Department of

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Abstract

The educational needs of hearing handicapped children have long been unmet. In the past, this has resulted in hearing handicapped children becoming increasingly educationally retarded even though intellectually, they had the ability to progress in the public school program. The needs of such children are being met in large city areas which have school populations large enough to warrant the employment of special resource or day class teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing. In a rural area, there is not a sufficient number of such children in any one school district to justify the establishment of a special room for proper instruction. This study is being made to evaluate the effectiveness of a trained teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing in a rural itinerant program.