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Education, Employment, and Independent Living of Young Adults Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 157, Number 3, Summer 2012
- pp. 264-275
- 10.1353/aad.2012.1619
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Little information is available on the education, employment, and independent living status of young deaf and hard of hearing adults who have transitioned from high school. The present article reports post-secondary outcomes of 46 young adults who had attended for at least 4 years a non–public agency school in the northwestern United States specializing in deaf education. School administrators had developed a specific philosophy and operationalized it in an academic and literacy-based curriculum incorporating a grammatically accurate signing system. The researchers found that most or all participants had finished high school, had earned a college degree, were employed, and were living independently. Findings are discussed in terms of the available literature and the study’s contribution to a limited body of recent research on young postsecondary deaf and hard of hearing adults.