Part V. Research Programs and Services

PartV Research Programs and Services 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 H u m a n 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 A Study of Family Learning Environments for Deaf Children Barbara Bodner-Johnson, Gallaudet Coll., Washington , DC 20002 Development of Complex Syntactic Processes in Deaf children Robert Hofmeister, Boston Univ. Trustees, School of Educ., Boston, MA 02215 Comparative Analysis of Narrative Discourse Between Hearing and Hearing-Impaired School-Age Children Lynn Snyder & Christy Chaires, Univ. of Denver, Denver, C O 80208 Mentally Retarded Development of Procedures for Assessing Prelinguistic and Early Linguistic Behavior of Low Functioning Children Robert Carpenter, Univ. of Washington, Child Dev. & MR Center, Seattle, WA 98195 Orthopedically & Hlth. Impaired Enhancing the Educational Potential of Non-Oral Children through Matching Communication Device Capabilities to Children's Needs Collette Coleman, Calif. State Univ., Sacramento, CA 95819 Speech Impaired An Experimental Investigation of Individual Differences and Generalization in Articulation Training Mary Elbert & Barbara Rockman, Indiana Univ., Speech & Hrng. Sciences, Bloomington, IN 47402 Aspects of the Phonologic & Syntactic/Semantic Processes Paula Menyuk, Boston Univ., School of Education, Boston, MA 02215 A Prescriptive Manual for Parents and Teachers of Language Impaired Children, 0 - 3 Years of Age Martin C. Schultz, Children's Hosp. Med. Center, Boston, MA 02115 Speech Language Pathology and Audiology—An Educational Perspective for the Future Trudy Snope, Amer. Speech-Lang.-Hrng. Assn., Research & Prof. Development Dept., Rockville, MD 20852 Early Childhood Conversational Analysis Rita Weiss, Elizabeth Pfenninger & Elizabeth Heublien , Univ. of Colo., Communications Disorders & Speech Sei., Boulder, C O 80309 Cross-Categorical The Development of Behavioral Synchrony in Social Communication: The Exceptional Infant Jeanette Walker, Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Special Educ., Urbana, IL 61820 Physical Fitness and the Orthopedic and Sensory Impaired Joseph P. Winnick, State Univ. of New York at Brockport , Albany, NY 12201 Non-Categorical Sign Language Acquisition by Young, Nonverbal Children Rosslyn Gaines, Univ. of Calif. Regents, Neuropsych. Inst., Los Angeles, CA 90024 A.A.D. I April 1982 Research and Information Programs 281 Non-Vocal Communication Research Patricia Meyers, Region 20 Educ. Service Ctr., San Antonio, TX 78209 Implementation of Non-Vocal Communication Strategies with Severely Handicapped Jay R. Shotel, George Washington Univ., Dept. of Special Educ., Washington, DC 20052 National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Current Grants in Hearing Research and Equilibrium, Specifically Relevant to Deafness Speech Perception by Hearing-Impaired Listeners Michael F. Dorman, Arizona State Univ., Tempe 85281 Psychological Studies of Binaural Hearing and Attention Ervin R. Hafter, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 94720 Morphology and Physiology of the Inner Ear Edwin R. Lewis, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 94720 Structure of Primary Auditory Cortex Jeffery A. Winer, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 94720 Aural Cholesteatoma - An Experimental Model Richard A. Chole, Univ. of Calif., Davis 95616 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 Environmental Influences Upon Auditory Development Middle Ear Responses in Serous Otitus Media Allen F. Ryan, Univ. of Calif. - San Diego, La Jolla 92037 Suprathreshold Auditory Behavior Donald D. Dirks, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles 90024 Human Temporal Bone Pathology Ruth Gussen, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles 90024 Clinical Vestibular Testing Workshop Experimental Studies on Vestibular Mechanisms Vicente 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...