This study investigated the beliefs and practices of 28 teachers of the deaf about their practices. The teachers were all working in oral settings either as visiting teachers or teachers in a mainstream school facility supporting groups of students with hearing loss. Teachers who used an Auditory Verbal approach largely adopted a positivist…

Papers from five plenary sessions and a number of sectional meetings consider oral education of the deaf. Elementary and secondary deaf education programs are discussed with reference to teaching the multiply handicapped, curriculum development, programed instruction, and teaching methods and materials. The following are also treated: the subject…