The field of deaf education has changed a great deal in the past 25 years with the proliferation of day school programs as well as the acceptance of the use of Total Communication in a majority of these programs. The results of the study presented here indicate that both teachers and administrators in programs for hearing impaired students believe that the competencies needed by teachers in these programs have changed during this time. Therefore, teacher preparation programs in the education of the hearing impaired should carefully examine their curricula in an effort to better meet the needs that their students will have once they are in an actual teaching situation.
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