Two national surveys of personnel preparation programs in the education of the hearing impaired were conducted to determine teacher educators' opinions on the preparation of teachers to serve learning disabled and socialiy/emotionally disturbed hearing impaired students. Most teacher educators reported a need to. modify existing curricula in personnel preparation programs in order to better prepare teachers to meet the needs of hearing impaired students who have mild secondary handicapping conditions. However, few suggestions for curricular modification were offered.
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