Letter from the Editor

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Letter from the Editor

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Letter from the Editor

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Letter from the Editor

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Letter from the Editor

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Letter from the Editor

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Use of the ACT Assessment with College-Bound Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

This paper summarizes the initial findings of studies conducted by researchers at ACT Inc. and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf concerning the performance of deaf and hard-of-hearing students on the ACT Assessment. The paper describes the ACT Assessment, and presents normative information about performance of a national sample of deaf and hard-of-hearing test takers in addition to results of performance of students entering NTID. Issues related to the effect of hearing loss, age of onset, and high school education are also discussed. Results for the studies reported in this paper indicate that the ACT Assessment is valid when used with postsecondary level deaf and hard-of-hearing students seeking admission to two-and four-year colleges in the United States

The Effect of Postsecondary Education on the Occupational Attainments of Deaf Adults

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Supplemental Security Income Payments Made to Young Adults who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

This paper reports on a collaborative study between the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) to assess SSI benefits received by young adults who are deaf or hard of hearing in October 1995. Twenty-one percent of the subjects received an average SSI benefit of $337. The more education individuals have, the less likely they will draw SSI. Individuals who attend college and dropout receive higher SSI benefits than college graduates. A larger percentage of females than males received SSI benefits at all educational levels. Educators and social service professionals need to encourage every able student(s) who are deaf or hard of hearing to pursue postsecondary education. Use of public funds to support higher education and rehabilitation of individual (s) who are deaf or hard of hearing is a sound investment. Public policy supporting postsecondary education of individual(s) who are deaf or hard of hearing reduces long term dependence on Federal SSI payments

Providing Deaf People with the Opportunity for a Degree: Benefits to Individual and Society

This study was conducted to determine the extent to which individual and societal financial sacrifices necessary to support postsecondary education for deaf people are worthwhile by determining the relationship of college to both higher salaries for deaf individuals and additional taxes paid to the government. The Internal Revenue Service provided data on earnings of, and taxes paid by, several groups of college applicants: those not accepted; no- shows; withdrawals; sub-bachelor graduates; and bachelor degree recipients. Projections of their earnings received and taxes paid over 20 years were made. Principal findings were that, after20 years: (1) deaf Bachelor degree recipients will have earned roughly $220,000 more than sub-Bachelor alumni and$320,000-$365,000 more than persons without degrees; and (2)deaf Bachelor graduates will have paid approximately$89,000morein taxes than those with sub-Bachelor degrees and $126,000-$140,000 more than those without degrees. Both individual and society benefit economically when deaf people earn postsecondary degrees