The Meadow-Kendall Social-Emotional Assessment Inventories for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Students (SEAI) are designed to be completed by teachers and other educational personnel in close contact with deaf students. The school-age inventory contains 59 items divided into three subscales: social adjustment, self-image, and emotional adjustment. Norms are provided for girls and for boys ages 7 to 15 and ages 16 to 21. Those norms are based on inventories collected on more than 2400 students enrolled in 10 different schools and programs for the hearing impaired. The preschool inventory contains 49 items divided into four subscales (sociable, communicative behaviors; impulsive, dominating behaviors; developmental lags; and anxious, compulsive behaviors) plus three special items related to deafness. Norms are provided for girls and boys ages 36 to 47 months, 48 to 59 months, and 60 to 83 months. Those norms are based on data collected on approximately 800 children enrolled in special programs for hearing impaired children. This manual describes the rationale for each of the inventories, particularly with reference to the assessment provision of Public Law 94-142, the development of items included, collection of data, and statistical analyses. Procedures are described for administering, scoring, and interpreting the inventories, with a cautionary postscript outlining the uses and limitations of the instruments. (Author)