Development of a student workbook in conjunction with the Communication Skills Training for Professionals and Paraprofessionals Program

This paper discusses Communication Skills Training for Professionals and Paraprofessionals (ComPro), a program that trains professionals and paraprofessionals to communicate more effectively with their hearing-impaired clientele. This study assesses the usefulness of the ComPro in-service program and student workbook.

Communication strategies used by teachers at a school for the deaf

This paper describes alternate approaches to communication with hearing-impaired children which are used by classroom teachers at a school for the deaf.

Training hearing adults in the use of communication strategies to prevent communication breakdowns with hearing impaired individuals: A pilot study

This paper discusses a pilot study and the use of repair strategies to aid in communication with the hearing impaired.

A comparison of communication breakdowns and repair strategies used by cochlear implant children from two differenct methodologies

This study investigates how children with cochlear implants from simultaneous communications backgrounds and from oral education backgrounds experience communication breakdowns. The study examines each group's response to communication breakdowns and the repair strategies of each group.

The psycholinguistic communication strategies of a mother of a hearing-impaired infant

This paper discusses a study to provide a descriptive analysis of the linguistic environment of a deaf infant during his first year of life.

Communication between caregivers and deaf patients during hospitalization

This paper discusses a study to identify major problems in communication during hospitalization perceived by deaf patients and by nurses.

An investigation of the communication strategies used by mothers of hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses a study to investigate how mothers of hearing impaired children talk to their children and their influence on language development.

Multimedia telephone systems as a valuable communication tool for the hearing-impaired

This paper discusses videoconferencing systems as a communication tool for the hearing impaired.

Applicability of the CID grammatical analysis of elicted language-simple sentence level to children educated in total communication

This paper discusses a study to determine the applicability of the CID GAEL Test-Simple Sentence Level test to hearing impaired children educated in a total communication setting.

Subjective impressions of child cochlear-implant users: effects of conversational fluency, intelligibility, speech perception, and communication mode

This paper investigates the conversational fluency of young cochlear implant users. The study compares objective measures and subjective impressions of conversation fluency, relates how children’s communication skills influence both objective and subjective measures of conversational fluency, and compares the performance of children who use an oral mode with those who use a total communication mode in everyday conversation.

Communication breakdowns and repair strategies in oral communication and total communication children with cochlear implants

This study assesses communication breakdowns in children with cochlear implants from oral and total communications backgrounds. More communication breakdowns occurred between the total communication child and the conversational partner than the oral communication child and the conversational partner. Both total and oral communication children used non-specific repair strategies.

The effects of group-based psychosocial therapy on conversational fluency and communication handicap

This paper studies whether a combination of group rehabilitation in conjunction with psychosocial therapy enhances conversational fluency and diminishes communication handicap in cochlear implant recipients.

Factors related to oral communication ability in profoundly deaf children

This study examines which factors might be related to the successful development of good oral communication skills in hearing-impaired students at a school for the deaf.

Acoustical barriers to communication and hearing

This study examined the acoustical conditions, including the surface-dimension measurements, background noise levels, and reverberation times in classrooms in a metropolitan area. The data collected in this study will help school administrators realize that appropriate classroom acoustics are necessary for both hearing impaired and normal hearing students.

The effectiveness of "Word of Mouth" classes on the use of communication strategies, communication attitudes and lipreading skills

This paper examines the effectiveness of aural rehabilitation on persons with an adventitious hearing loss.