Cognition, Education, and Deafness: Directions for Research and Instruction

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments An enterprise such as this analysis and synthesis of papers from the 1984 International Symposium on Cognition, Education, and Deafness can never become a reality without the significant involvement of many dedicated people. Inevitably, some of these people work almost invisibly; regrettably, they may not receive the proper acknowledgment. A great debt of gratitude is owed to Doreen Dixon for deliberate and precise work in word processing; Elaine Costello of Gallaudet Uf!.iversity Press for essential guidance and support; Ivey Pittle of Gallaudet University Press for painstaking, thorough, and intelligent editing of the entire manuscript ; Doin Hicks (Vice-President for Research at Gallaudet University) for encouragement and financial backing; and all of the obviously well-qualified contributors and analysts in this volume, withoutwhose work there would be only blank pages after this page. Careful and comprehensive notes of each symposium session were kept by a corps of hard-working graduate assistants. Their work proved to be essential to the contributors who analyzed each theme grouping of papers in this volume. Consequently, appreciation is expressed to the following recorders : Linda Savard for parts 4, 5, and 7; CarielynKellyforparts6, 7, and 9; Karla Cowell for parts 3,8, and 9; and Theresa Sternatand Renee Herbert for part 9. A special expression of indebtedness and appreciation is owed to the late Clarence Williams, Director of Faculty and Student Research at Gallaudet University. His professional inspiration and energy were essential to the original conceptualization and initial planningfor the symposium from which this book grew. He is much missed by all who knew him. David S. Martin, Editor xiii ...