Discusses a series of seminars designed to teach situational communication skills to deaf adults and enable graduate students to improve their ability to work with the deaf. (RW)

This is a reaction to papers by Kerr and Frankel, in this same issue, using examples from education and rehabilitation. Status differential is viewed as a prerequisite for the development of independence and maturity. (Author)

Factors related to staff turnover in a camp for mentally retarded persons were examined during 1971-1977. Staff were live-in college or graduate school counselors with special education or related majors. Not being able to cope and poor performance occurred in small proportion to total number of reasons documented. (Author/RD)

Assessed the relationship between self-disclosure and perceived closeness in two training groups of counseling students (N=20) in order to describe the development of group process. Findings indicated increases in amount and quality of self-disclosure and decreases in perceived interpersonal distance, supporting participant development in a small…

Suggests that unemployed English graduates and career changers need information, careful long-term nurturing through support groups, and lessons in marketing and extending the abilities they have. (AEA)

The developmental issues associated with advisor-advisee relationships in graduate education are discussed with a focus on the creation of developmental settings. The advisor's relationship with the student and the academic and professional setting, and the advisee's relationship with the advisor and the academic and larger community settings are…

Two social work professionals, one partially sighted, the other blind, describe practical and attitudinal problems regarding graduate school, course work, field service, and location of employment. Suggestions are made for rehabilitation counselors and educators in professional schools. (Author/MC)

Examined vocational interests of counseling psychology trainees and the concurrent validity of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) for this group. Results generally supported the concurrent validity of the SCII in a group of counseling trainees. Found relationships between certain SCII scores and students' preferences concerning…

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised protocols from two vocational counseling clients were scored by 19 psychologists and 20 graduate students. Regardless of scorer's experience level, mechanical scoring error produced summary scores varying by as much as 4 to 18 IQ points. (Author/RC)

The study validating the ability of the Test of Standard Written English with junior and master's level students was replicated with one-year cumulative grade point average serving as the criterion variable. Confirmed was the finding that scores, placement, and success in English courses were predictive of the academic success of such students.…

In the Norwalk (Connecticut) School District, education graduate students from the nearby University of Bridgeport serve as interns, working as substitutes or assistants each day in the same school. The district and the interns realize administrative and financial benefits, and both interns and students report favorably on the program. (RW)

Fifty subjects were physics graduate students in Taiwan, and forty-five were physics graduate students in the United States. Results indicated Taiwanese students pursuing their studies in the United States did not feel as well prepared as their counterparts. Recommendations include revision of undergraduate curriculum and requiring more English…

Presents the results of a survey of faculty members at the University of Missouri at Kansas City's School of Administration concerning their attitudes toward the library research skills of graduate students and the role of library instruction in the development of those skills. Data are presented in four tables. (JL)