Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor Grateful for the Annual Survey To the Editor: A week or two ago I phoned Brenda Rawlings of the Gallaudet Research Institute asking for some information from its 1997-98 Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Youth. It arrived in today's mail, organized precisely around the information I was seeking. And each year, those of us who subscribe to the annual reference issue of the Annals receive an updated list of schools, programs, and information about deaf students, assembled by the staff of the Annual Survey. The list of services provided by this group goes on and on. The Annual Survey goes back to 1964, when what was then called the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped or BEH (the forerunner of OSERS) funded Gallaudet to determine the feasibility of establishing a national database on deaf and hard of hearing children. The first national survey was carried out in 1967-68. Then in 1974, federal funding became unavailable. Recognizing the continuing importance of the Annual Survey , Gallaudet University assumed its fiscal responsibility and has been funding it ever since. Those of us who directly or indirectly make use of the information it proves owe a debt of gratitude to the Gallaudet administration for maintaining the invaluable service to the field. E. Ross Stuckless Professor and Research Associate National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York Volume 143, No. 3, 1998 American Annals of the Deaf ...