- Deaf/Hearing Cultural Tension in a Family (Page 1)
- Describes Dr. Laura Blackburn's study entitled "Linguistic and cultural interactions among Deaf / hearing family members: Implications for family partnerships in early education."
- Parents' Experience with Support Services (Page 1)
- Describes a multi-phase Priority Grant study by Dr. Donna Mertens, Dr. Marilyn Sass-Lehrer and Kim Scott-Olsen. The results from the second phase have been published as a chapter in the book "The Deaf Child in the Family and at School" edited by Patricia Spencer, Carol Erting and Mark Marschark.
- Powrie V. Doctor Chair of Deaf Studies (Page 2)
- Brief biographies of Dr. Anne Quartararo (1998-1999 recipient) and Dr. Jan Branson and Dr. Donald Miller (1999-2000 recipients).
- Visiting Scholars (Page 3)
- Brief biographies of Dr. Daniela Janakova, a Fullbright Scholar from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and Maria Suarez from La Laguna University, in the Canary Island
- William C. Stoke and the Study of Signed Languages Conference (Page 7)
- Highlights of the conference. Presenters: I. King Jordan, Scott Liddell, Ted Supalla, Roger Fouts, Adam Kendon, Sherman Wilcox, Benjamin Bahn, Britta Hansen, Carol J. Erting, Laura Petitto, Carl Croneberg, Dorothy Sueoka, Carol Padden, Gil Eastman, Douglas Baynton, John Bonvillian, Frank Wilson, Glenn Anderson, Hrlan Lane, Ceil Lucas (through Melanie Metzger) and Virginia Volterra.
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- New Procedures May Revolutionalize Early Identification of Hearing Loss (Page 1)
- Dr. Brandt Culpepper discusses otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) as a less expensive and less invasive method of screening newborns for hearing loss.
- Inside a Bilingual Program for Deaf Students (Page 1)
- Describes Dr. Cynthia N. Bailes Priority Grant study entitled "Primary-Grade Teachers' Strategic Use of ASL in Teaching English Literacy in a Bilingual School Setting".
- Priority Area Research at Gallaudet (Page 2)
- Nine projects received Priority Area Research Fund awards in Academic Year 1997-1998. Two are discussed in depth elsewhere in this newsletter. The remaining seven are listed briefly.
- A Kindred Response to a New Annotated Bibliography about CODAs (Page 6)
- A review of "On the Edge of Deaf Culture: Hearing Children / Deaf Parents", an annotated bibliography by Thomas Bull. The author focuses on the parallels between CODAs and child survivors of the Holocaust.
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