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JADARA 
Volume 27 Number 3 Article 5 
October 2019 
Letter from the Editor 
Gerard G. Walter 
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
This issue of JADARA addresses the topic of a meeting of cultures in the research arena. The papers,
for the most part, focus on the role of a hearing person conducting research on a deaf population. The papers
by Akamatsu, Stinson, Foster and Hauser are an outgrowth from a panel discussion on the topics of
"Researcher's Doing Research in Their Own Back Yard" which was held at the 1993 American Education
Reiiearch Association's annual meeting. In addition, we have included papers by Robert Pollard concerning
ethics in conducting deafness research and by Cynthia Nickless concerning methodological issues in
coriducting outcome research on a deaf, psychiatric population. Dr. Pollard's paper was originally presented
at ihe 1991 ADARA conference and then published in Rehabilitation Psychology. I want to thank Dr. Myron
Eisenberg, editor of Rehabilitation Psychology for permission to reprint Dr. Pollard's paper.
Finally, Nancy Bock, in the Point of View section, describes some of the same issues of cultural
intisraction as they apply to inclusion within the ADARA organization. While the main focus in this issue has
be<in on research, much of what is stated can equally apply to an informal interaction among deaf and hearing
persons. We could easily change the term "research" to "counselling" or "instruction" or "rehabilitation" and
apjMy the same cautions about interpreting the meaning of interactions in these settings. It is our hope that
rea ders will use the information in these papers to improve the quality of the services they provide to the deaf
clients served by the ADARA membership.
As I always do in these letters, I urge our readers to send me your manuscripts for consideration.
It is only through your writings that JADARA can achieve the goal of being a means of sharing our knowledge
wiich each other.
Gerard G. Walter
Editor
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