Implementing Programs for Young Hearing Impaired Children

Abstract

This article delineates the special education laws and timetable of events in Minnesota which led to public school acceptance of responsibility for the education of hearing impaired infants in 1968. It describes an individually prescriptive regional public school program for 51 hearing impaired children from birth to 3 years of age and their parents located in Minneapolis, the host district. The components of service include tuition free placement in regular nursery schools and a parent teaching program. The author also identifies some critical variables in parent and child behavior and solicits future research based upon a sample of the hearing impaired population being educated in integrated nursery schools, kindergartens, and elementary classes for validation of a program of early oral and aural intervention which emphasizes parent teaching and home training.

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