Education of Handicapped Children, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health, 89th Congress, 1st Session, on S. 1400 and S. 1650, May 17, 1965

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Page 35 - State, and (B) students in residential schools for the handicapped (including mentally retarded, hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, crippled, or other health impaired persons who by reason thereof require special education) operated or substantially supported by the State.
Page 18 - In enacting this bill, provision should be made for an advisory committee to evaluate the programs at the end of 5 years. This committee should evaluate and report to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on the progress of the technical training program as well as other educational efforts for the deaf, such as those that could be authorized under the Vocational Education Act of 1963. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 should also provide Federal support for improved education...
Page 13 - Board created by section 6, is authorized to enter into an agreement with an institution of higher education for the establishment and operation, including construction and equipment, of a National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
Page 36 - Research In addition to serving as a practice teaching center for the training of teachers, instructors, and rehabilitation counselors for the deaf, the Institute will serve as a research facility for the study of educational problems of the deaf.
Page 81 - bold new approach" to the management of mental illness, which ted in turn to the passage of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963.
Page 89 - These range from perfecting an eyeglass optical projection device to producing five 30-minute colored medical teaching films and video tapes on surgical procedures for the correction of hearing loss.
Page 68 - Thank you very much. At this time I would like to insert in the record several statements and letters we have received.
Page 10 - States shall be entitled to recover from the applicant or other owner of the facility an amount which bears to the then value of the facility the same ratio as the amount of such Federal funds bore to the cost of the facility financed with the aid of such funds.
Page 17 - Most residential schools for the deaf have programs which provide the equivalent of an eighth-grade education. Very few of the specialized day school programs go beyond elementary school levels. Students who wish to continue their education are expected to transfer to regular high schools and vocational schools for hearing children. Because of the serious communication problem involved, not many more than 1 percent of these deaf children...
Page 85 - This bill is to provide an establishment and operation of a National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The...

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