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Part IV Research Programs and Services Φ Φ A. Selected Government and Private Research B. Research Projects: Schools and Classes C. Doctoral Dissertations Research Projects in the Area of Deafness Selected Government Sponsored Research Projects Listed below are selected current government sponsored research projects specifically relevant to deafness. Each entry includes project title, investigator(s), grantee and location and is categorized according to its sponsoring agency: Department of Health and Human Services: — U.S. Department of Education, and National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; and its area of emphasis (Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and Speech and Hearing). Complete listings of funded research are available from the sponsoring government agency. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Education Division of Innovation and Development Deaf and Hard of Hearing An Investigation into the Auditory Processing Rate of Children with History of Chronic Otitis Media Utilizing Backward Masking Paradigm Melvin Hyman, Bowling Green State Univ., Sch. of Speech Commun., Bowling Green, OH 43403 Antecedents of Language Functioning in the Deaf. Implications for Early Intervention Shelia White, Lexington Sch. for the Deaf, Jackson Heights, NY 11370 ILIAD: Interactive Language Instruction Assistance for the Deaf Kirk Wilson, Boston Univ. Sch. of Educ, Boston, MA 02215 Cross-Categorical Lifelong Career Development (LCD) Project for the Severely Handicapped Donn Brolin, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Dept. of Counseling, Columbia, MO 65211 Project UNIQUE. Physical Fitness and the Orthopedic and Sensory Impaired Joseph P. Winnick, State Univ. of New York, Research Fnd .-Brockport, Albany, NY 12201 Speech Impaired A Language Training Curriculum for Severely Language Delayed Preschool and Primary Grade Children Milton Budoff, Research Inst, for Educational Problems , Cambridge, MA 02138 Development of Procedures for Assessing Prelinguistic and Early Linguistic Behaviors in Low Functioning Children Robert L. Carpenter, Univ. of Washington, Child Dvmnt. & Mntl. Retard. Ctr., Seattle, WA 98195 A Comparison of the Learning Strategies of Language-Impaired and Normal Children Michael Cole, Univ. of Calif. Regents, La JoIIa, CA 92093 Studies of Factors Affecting the Facilitative Effects of Signing When Used as an Aid to Communicative Development LyIe L. Lloyd & Macalyne Fristoe, Purdue Univ., Spec. Educ. Ctr., West Lafayette, IN 47907 Parent-Child Interaction Model for Assessment and Training of Severe Language Delay James MacDonald, Ohio State Univ., Nisonger Ctr., Columbus, OH 43212 An Analysis of Communicative Intent: The Natural Gestures of Prelinguistic Severely Handicapped Students Carolyn B. Mervis & Mareile A. Koenig, Univ. of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Psychol., Champaign, IL 61820 Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. An Educational Perspective for the Future Kenneth Perrin, American Speech-LanguageHearing Assn., Research & Profess. Dvmnt. Dept., Rockville, MD 20852' A.A.D. I April 1981 Research and Information Programs 283 A Prescriptive Manual for Parents and Teachers of Language-Impaired Children, Zero to Three Years of Age Martin C. Schultz, Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr., Hrng. & Sp. Div., Boston, MA 02115 A Comparative Analysis of Social Interactions Between Handicapped and NonHandicapped Infants and Their Mothers Jeanette Waiter & John Reisman, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Spec. Educ, Urbana, IL 61820 Attention Deficits in Language Disabilities: What Is It? Grace Yeni-Komshian, Univ. of Maryland, Hrng. & Speech Sciences, College Park, MD 20742 National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Current Grants in Hearing Research and Equilibrium, Specifically Relevant to Deafness Psychophysiological Studies of Binaural Interaction Ervin R. Hafter, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 94720 Morphology and Physiology of the Inner Ear Edwin R. Lewis, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 94720 Auditory Information Flow in Cortex and Thalamus Leonard M. Kitzes, Univ. of Calif., Irvine 92664 Auditory Evoked Brain Potentials in Neurological Disease Arnold Starr, Univ. of Calif., Irvine 92664 Central Neural Mechanisms of Hearing Richard F. Thompson, Univ. of Calif., Irvine 92664 Suprathreshold Auditory Behavior Donald D. Dirks, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles 90024 Human Temporal Bone Pathology Ruth Güssen, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles 90024 Clinical Vestibular Testing Workshop Experimental Studies on Cochlear Mechanisms Vincente Honrubia, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles 90024 Central Vestibular Mechanisms Charles H. Markham, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles 90024 Behavioral vs. Objective Estimates of Auditory Function Paul D. Noffsinger, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles 90024 Dynamic Aspects of Auditory Synaptic Terminals lisa R. Schwartz, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles 90024 Communicative...

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