Slow Learning Deaf Children

Author

Margaret Zarinelli, Fontbonne College

Year of Award

1968

Degree

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

College

College of Education & Allied Health

Department

Communication Disorders and Deaf Education

Keywords

educationally handicapped, academic, nonverbal, grade standards

Abstract

The hearing impaired child is educationally handicapped because of his lack of achieving language through the ordinary channel — hearing. He would be given half a chance if that were his only problem. The deaf child who is further handicapped by a learning disability delays his educational achievement even beyond that of a singly-handicapped deaf child because he is not only limited by his means of acquiring language but also limited in the amount and number of language and language principles he is able to learn. This is the slow learning deaf child; he is doubly handicapped in his struggle to learn — to learn language, reading, speech, lipreading, and content areas. He is the child who has been neglected and overlooked for many years in educational history because he does not differ from the normal enough to be noticed. But he is calling teachers to his attention and is being heard by more educators and administrators.

Comments

Original copy bound in Deaf Education Theses 1968. Manuscript 12 of 14.

Document Type

Restricted Thesis

Recommended Citation

Zarinelli, Margaret, "Slow Learning Deaf Children" (1968). All Theses, Dissertations, and Capstone Projects. 116.
https://griffinshare.fontbonne.edu/all-etds/116