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References Related to Learning Disabilities in the Deaf/Hard of Hearing Population

Compiled By
Steven Thomas Hardy, M.A. and William Kachman Ph.D., NCSP
Kendall Demonstration Elementary School
Gallaudet University
Washington, D.C. 20002

Anthony, H. 1973. Learning disabilities, detection, diagnosis, remediation. Report of the Proceedings of the 46th Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (pp. 85-101). Indianapolis, IN.

Auxter, D. 1971. Learning disabilities among deaf populations. Exceptional Children, 37(8), 573-577.

Bond, D.E. 1979. Aspects of psycho-educational assessment of hearing-impaired children with additional handicaps. Journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf, 3, 76-79.

Bond, D.E. 1982. Management of hearing-impaired children who have additional learning and behavioral difficulties. Unpublished manuscript, University of Manchester, England.

Buff, S. 1964. A suggested program for teaching beginning reading to slow learning deaf children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Bullard, C. S., & Schirmer, B. R. 1991. Understanding questions: Hearing-impaired children with learning problems. The Volta Review, 93(6), 235-245.

Bunch, G. O., & Melnyk, T. L. 1989. A review of the evidence for a learning disabled, hearing-impaired subgroup. American Annals of the Deaf, 134(5), 297- 300.

Campbell, D. et al. 1986. Computer aided self-instruction training with impulsive deaf students and learning disabled students: A study on teaching reflective thought. (ERIC Document Reproduction Services No. ED 282 365).

Cantor, D. et al. 1986. Neurophysiological differences between deaf and hearing children. Paper presented at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Veldouen, The Netherlands.

Cherow, E., Matkin, N., & Trybus, R. (Eds.). 1985. Hearing impaired children and youth with developmental disabilities: An Interdisciplinary foundation for service. Washington, DC: Gallaudet College Press.

Clarke, B. R., & Kendall, D. C. 1980. Learning disabled or hearing impaired: A folly of forced categories. British Columbia Journal of Special Education, 4, 13-27.

Craig, W. N., & Craig, H. B. 1993. Education programs for deaf students. American Annals of the Deaf, 138(2), 101-209.

Early, G. 1973. Learning disabilities: A developmentally based diagnostic-remedial approach. Report of the Proceedings of the 46th Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (pp. 228-236). Indianapolis, IN.

Elliot, H., Glass, L., & Evans, J. W. (Eds.). 1987. Mental health assessment of deaf clients: A practical manual.

Elliot, R. N., & Powers, A. R. 1988. Preparing teachers to serve the learning disabled hearing impaired. The Volta Review, 90, 13-18.

Elliot, R. N., Powers, A. R., & Funderburg, R. 1988. Learning disabled hearing-impaired students: Teacher survey. The Volta Review, 90, 277-286.

Elliot, R. N., & Powers, A. R. (Eds.). 1992. Identification and assessment of hearing impaired students with mild additional disabilities. University of Alabama.

Elliot, R. N., & Powers, A. R. (Eds.). 1992. Assessment profiles of hearing impaired students with mild additional disabilities. University of Alabama.

Elliot, R. N., & Powers, A. R. 1993 (April). Characteristics of students with hearing impairment with mild additional disabilities. Paper presented at the meeting of the Council of Exceptional Children, San Antonio, Texas.

Elliot, R. N., & Powers, A. R. (Eds.). 1993. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students with mild additional disabilities. University of Alabama.

Flathouse, V. 1975. Alternative approaches to serving children with learning problems in a residential school for the deaf. Report of the Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (pp. 210-215). Greensboro, NC.

Flathouse, V. 1979. Multiply handicapped deaf children and Public Law 94-142. Exceptional Children, 45, 560-565.

Funderburg, R. S. 1980. The learning disabled deaf child: Assessment. In R. S. Funderburg & D. Tweedie (Eds.), Monograph IV: Learning-disabled hearing-impaired children. Washington, DC: Gallaudet College, Department of Education.

Funderburg, R. S. 1981 (November-December). Learning disabilities and deafness. The Endeavor, pp. 8-10.

Funderburg, R. S. 1982. The role of the classroom teacher in the assessment of the learning-disabled hearing-impaired child. In D. Tweedie & E. Shroyer (Eds.), The multihandicapped hearing impaired: Identification and Instruction (pp. 61-74). Washington, DC: Gallaudet College Press.

Funderburg, R. S., & Tweedie, D. (Eds.). 1980. Monograph IV: Learning-disabled hearing-impaired children (pp. 1-22). Washington, DC: Gallaudet College, Department of Education.

Glass, R. 1981. The association of middle ear effusion and auditory learning disabilities in children. Rehabilitation Literature, 42, 81-85.

Goetsch, E. 1981 (November-December). Does your deaf child have learning disabilities? The Endeavor, pp. 1-3.

Gottlieb, D., & Allen, W. 1985. Visual disorders in a selected population of hearing impaired students. The Volta Review, 87(3), 165-170.

Hagger, D. 1972. Specific learning difficulties and deaf children. Australian Teacher of the Deaf, 13, 13-19.

Hammill, D. D., Leigh, J. E., McNutt, G., & Laren, S.C. 1981. A new definition of learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 4, 336-342.

Hanshaw, J. B. 1982. On deafness, cytomegalovirus and neonatal screening. American Journal of Diseases of Children, 136, 886-887.

Hardy, W. G., & Hardy, M. 1977. Essays on communication and communicative disorders. New York: Grune & Stratton.

Harvey, S. 1981 (November-December). My deaf son and learning disabilities. The Endeavor, pp. 4-5.

Hawkins-Shepard, C. 1977 (June). Educational planning for deaf children with learning disabilities. Paper presented at the Convention of American Instructors for the Deaf. Los Angeles, CA. (ERIC Document Reproduction Services No. ED 150 789)

Hawkins-Shepard, C. 1982. Hearing impaired learners with learning disabilities. In E. Holzhauer, K. Hoff, & E. Cherow (Eds.), Hearing impaired developmentally disabled children and adolescents: An interdisciplinary look at a special population, Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Hill, J. W., Luetke-Stahlman, B., & Kapel, D. E. 1985. Validating teacher suspected dual diagnosis among selected deaf students also thought to be learning disabled. (ERIC Document Reproduction Services No. ED 276 231)

Hughes, L. C. 1981. A comparative study of the significance of minimal hearing impairment among the "learning disabled" (Doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1980). Dissertation Abstracts International, 41, 3527A.

Jaussi, K. R. 1986. Classification of deaf students as learning disabled at residential deaf schools in the United States (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1985). Dissertation Abstracts International, 46, 2997A.

Jensema, C. 1975. A note on the achievement test scores of multiply handicapped hearing impaired children. American Annals of the Deaf, 120(1), 37-39.

Johnson, M. K. 1980. Combining fields: A pilot project for training teachers to work with multiply handicapped deaf/learning disabled students. In R. S. Funderburg & D. Tweedie, (Eds.), Monograph IV: Learning-disabled hearing-impaired children (pp. 87-108). Washington, DC: Gallaudet College, Department of Education.

Kachman, W. & Rush, P. 1988 (April). Learning disabilities in the deaf population: Evaluation, interpretation, and recommendations for practice. Paper presented at the National Association of School Psychologists, Chicago, IL.

Kass, C. E. 1980. Remedial strategies for age-related characteristics of learning disability. In R. S. Funderburg & D. Tweedie (Eds.), Monograph IV: learning-disabled hearing-impaired children (pp. 53-63). Washington, DC: Gallaudet College Department of Education.

LaSasso, C. 1985. Learning disabilities: Let's be careful before labeling deaf children. Perspectives, 3(5), 2-4.

LaSasso, C. 1992. Speaking of "LDs," Whatever happened to Erin? Perspectives, 11(2), 2-6.

Laughton, J. 1989. The learning disabled hearing impaired students: Reality, myth, or overextension? Topics in Language Disorders, 9(4), 70-79.

Marlowe, B. 1991. Learning disabilities and deafness: Does short-term sequential memory provide the key? In D.S. Martin (Ed.), Advances in cognition, education, and deafness (pp. 279-288). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University.

Marlowe, B. 1991. Identifying learning disabilities in the deaf population. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Catholic University, Washington, DC.

Matson, J., Macklin, F., & Helsel, W. 1985. Psychometric properties of the Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters (MESSY) with emotional problems and self concept in deaf children. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 16(2), 117-123.

Mauk, G. W., & Mauk, P. 1991. Multihandicapped hearing-impaired children: Assessment and programming considerations. Unpublished manuscript, Utah State University, Logan.

Mauk, G. & Mauk, P. 1992. Somewhere out there: Preschooler children with hearing impairment and learning disabilities. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 12(2), 174-195.

Mauk, G. & Mauk, P. 1993. Compounding the challenge: Young deaf children with learning disabilities. Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 12(2), 12-18.

McIndoe, C. 1981 (November-December). The role of an auditory/learning disabilities specialist in a public school program for hearing impaired students. The Endeavor, pp. 7-8.

Mencher, G. T, & Gerber, S. E. (Eds.). 1983. The multiply handicapped hearing-impaired child. New York, NY: Grune and Stratton.

Mendelsohn, J. Z. (Ed.). 1981 (November-December). Deafness and learning disabilities [Special Issue]. The Endeavor.

Moores, D. F. 1982. Educating the deaf (2nd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Moores, D. F. 1987. Educating the deaf (3rd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Mortenson, B., & Weaver, P. 1993 (April). Hearing impaired/learning disabled: A new turn of an old wrench. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Washington, D.C.

Moxley, A., & Loggins, S. 1991. Learning disabilities in deaf and hard of hearing children. The Endeavor, pp. 18-20.

O'Toole, E. 1983. Educational assessment of multi-handicapped hearing-impaired adolescents. In F. Solano, J. Egelson-Dodd, & E. Costello (Eds.), Focus on Infusion (Vol. 2, pp. 187-190). Silver Spring, MD: Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Inc.

Paul, P. V., & Quigley, S. P. 1990. Education and deafness. New York: Longman.

Plapinger, D., & Sikora, D. 1990. Diagnosing a learning disability in a hearing-impaired child: A case study. American Annals of the Deaf, 135(4), 285-292.

Plapinger, D., & Sikora, D. 1992 (Fall). Identifying learning disabilities in hearing- impaired children. Our Kids Magazine (Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf).

Powers, A. 1985. Communication assessment for LDHI children. Unpublished manuscript.

Powers, A. R., & Harris, A. R. 1980. Strategies for teaching the learning-disabled hearing-impaired children. In R. S. Funderburg & D. Tweedie (Eds.), Monograph IV: Learning-disabled hearing-impaired children (pp. 63-86). Washington, DC: Gallaudet College, Department of Education.

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Powers, A., Elliot, R., Fairbank, D., & Monaghon, C. 1988. The dilemma of identifying learning disabled hearing-impaired students. The Volta Review, 90(6), 209-218.

Powers, A., Elliot, R., & Funderburg, R. 1987. Learning disabled hearing-impaired students: Are they being identified? The Volta Review, 89(2), 99-105.

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