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Educational Problems
Pages 18-20

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From page 18...
... This study should have regard to the differential possibilities of training for the various occupations, and to the possible need of greater flexibility, if it should be found that there is a considerable tendency for the deaf to adopt trades and occupations other than those for which they have received specific school training. OBJECTIVES OF INSTRUCTION As a general problem, involved at many points with the specific recommendations listed, there should be a persistent attempt to analyze and list the objectives of instruction of the deaf in each of the three divisions: primary, intermediate and advanced.
From page 19...
... The activities observed can be compared with those required of teachers of normally hearing children, and a list prepared of the special functions of the teachers of the auditorily deficient. comparative study of teachers similar in age, intelligence, schooling and experience, some of whom have been trained in a course designed especially to train teachers for the deaf; the others to have taken normal training first and to have received in approximately a semester the additional material designed to adapt their teaching to the deaf.
From page 20...
... \Ve need, therefore, to have special concern for the hypacousic, or " hard of hearing " child, who is largely amenable to the conditions of the public schools, but who requires certain special provisions in order to profit by school attendance. The Conference urges that systematic studies be made looking toward improved methods of handling hypacousic children in the common schools.


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