Education of the Deaf Act and Title V of the Higher Education Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, July 15, 1997, Volume 4

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Page 45 - Act of 1967, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Page 81 - institution of higher education" means" an educational institution in any State which (1) admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate, (2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education beyond secondary education...
Page 42 - DOE will assure that the program is managed and its results monitored in conformance with the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA).
Page 81 - State which — (1) admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate ; (2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education beyond high school ; (3) provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree...
Page 61 - I thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify before you today, and I will be happy to respond to your questions.
Page 9 - [t]he present status of education for persons who are deaf in the United States is unsatisfactory. Unacceptably so. This is the primary and inescapable conclusion of the Commission on Education of the Deaf
Page 54 - University, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf and the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School.
Page 9 - An act to authorise quality educational programs for deaf individuals, to foster Improved educational programs for deaf individuals throughout the United States, to reenact and codify certain provisions of...
Page 103 - University, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School and the Model Secondary School for the Deaf.
Page 101 - ... experts in the field to review applications. APPROPRIATE EDUCATION The Commission addresses the issues of appropriate education and least restrictive environment for the deaf and states that in developing the individual education plan (IEP), consideration should be given to such factors as severity of hearing loss and the potential for using residual hearing; academic level and learning style; communicative needs and the preferred mode of communication; linguistic, cultural, social, and emotional...

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