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Changing Times, Changing Society: Implications for Professionals in Deaf Education
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 142, Number 2, April 1997
- pp. 83-85
- 10.1353/aad.2012.0688
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Significant demographic shifts among school-aged deaf children in the United States have not mirrored similar shifts in the teaching force, which remains predominately White. The importance of exposing children from ethnically diverse minority backgrounds to role models who have firsthand knowledge and understanding of issues they face is discussed and the strategies needed to attract minority professionals into the field of deaf education are identified.