Conclusions

We began with the question, Can a school realistically increase the concentration of its teaching effort so that typical deaf children achieve at a level well above the average, beyond that of our private school classes, similar to individual cases mentioned in the literature, or even approaching the achievement of hearing children? From our experience in this Experimental Project in Instructional Concentration, the answer appears to be yes, at least in part. We described what we did to increase the concentration of teaching effort in the section of this report on INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM, and in the section on EVALUATION AND RESULTS we described the level of achievement of our deaf children. From these sections the reader may draw conclusions about cause and effect and from the data infer the degree of positiveness of our answer to the initial question. Here we amplify our basic conclusion by further interpreting the data and suggest some additional conclusions and ramifications of the Project.