Teaching Self-Control to Dually Diagnosed Deaf Students: Promising Procedures

Despite awareness that deaf students are at risk for developing a significantly higher incidence rate of behavior disorders, there exists a lack of programs and techniques to serve this dually diagnosed population. Although the use of self-control techniques has been successful with other handicapped populations, no reports of their use with a deaf population were found in the literature. Three author-conducted investigations of the use of self-control techniques with dually diagnosed deaf adolescents are reported. Implications of the results for teachers of the deaf are discussed.