Recommendations for a preparatory English language program for hearing-impaired college students

The purpose of this research was to develop recommendations for a preparatory English language program for hearing-impaired college students for Clark County Community College, Las Vegas, Nevada, and other concerned colleges that do not presently offer such a program. A questionnaire designed to elicit program information regarding the goals and objectives, instructional practices and procedures, assessment and evaluation, and major problems and solutions was developed. The questionnaire was sent to directors of current preparatory hearing-impaired English language programs in two-year, liberal arts colleges; An analysis of the data received revealed a good deal of diversity as well as considerable similarity in the goals and objectives, practices and procedures, and problems and solutions of the 35 responding programs. A synthesis and discussion of the data considered the relative merits and detriments, advantages and disadvantages of current program goals and objectives, practices and procedures. Based on these considerations, recommendations for a preparatory English language program for hearing-impaired college students were presented

Ill. teach. home econ. (1973)

Description based on: Vol. 17, no. 2 (Nov.-Dec. 1973); title from cover.Education index 0013-1385 -1992Current index to journals in education 0011-3565Bibliography of agriculture 0006-153

Elaboration propensity and formal operational ability

Propensity for elaboration has been hypothesized by Rohwer (1976) to account for age and individual differences in performance on paired-associate tasks. Elaboration propensity refers to the spontaneous association of two members of a pair by creation of an event or situation which joins the words. The construction of a sentence connecting the two words is an example of an elaboration strategy. According to Rohwer (1976), the use of elaboration techniques increases effective storage of information and thereby enhances retrieval. Rohwer, Raines, Eoff, and Wagner (1977) reported both age and individual differences in propensity for elaboration. Postadolescents (ages 16 to 17 years) who showed high proficiency on a paired-associate task demonstrated a propensity for elaboration. Preadolescents (ages 11 to 12 years) and postadolescents who performed with a medium or low proficiency on a paired-associate task demonstrated a minimal or weak elaboration propensity

Review of Allied Health Education: 3

A valuable appraisal of current developments in the rapidly expanding field of allied health education is provided in these nine original articles by leaders in the field. Most of the articles examine specific areas of training—programs for emergency medical technicians, nurse practitioners, rehabilitation counselors, respiratory therapists, dietitians, and social workers. Others are focused more generally on the burgeoning field of allied health education as a whole. This series seeks, through enlightened and descriptive commentary, to help bind the health professions into a true alliance, and to guide those entering training for careers of human service. Joseph Hamburg, M.D., is dean of the College of Allied Health Professions at the University of Kentucky. Clarifies educational problems that are common to all health professions and lends immediacy to what we know but find hard to program—that the alliance of health professions increases the effectiveness of individual professions as well as the effectiveness of the entire health services field. —American Journal of Occupational Therapy Required reading for all health professionals who seek to stay current with the mainstreams of education and service in the allied health professions —Edmund D. Pellegrinohttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_medicine_and_health_sciences/1003/thumbnail.jp