DOCUMENT RESUME ED 108 427 EC 073 082 TITLE Proceedings of National Conference on Program Development for and with Deaf People (Gallaudet College, Washington, D. C., October 9-12, 1973). INSTITUTION Gallaudet Coll., Washington, D.C.; Maryland Univ., College Part,. Cooperative Extension Service.; National Association of the Deaf, Silver Spring, Md. PUB/DATE Oct 73 'NOTE 134p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.76 HC-$6.97 PLUS POSTAGEN DESCRIPTORS Aurally Handicapped; *Community sources; Community Role; *Conference Reports; *Deaf; ceptional Child Services; Manual Communication; Paren ; *Program Development; *State Programs; Volunteers IDENTIFIERS *Personal Experiences ABSTRACT Presented are the proceedings from a 1973 national conference on the development of service programs for and with deaf - people. Opening papers include an introduction to the use of American Sign Language in community programs, a deaf woman's view of her world, and guidelines for the family physician in diagnosing and treating the deaf. In the next section, personal experiences are recounted by a deaf parent with hearing children, hearing parents of deaf children, and four deafened or hard of hearing adults.Described are various resources to help the\parent andchild (such as the school for the deaf and the community college) and to help the deafened adult (such as a university hospital and the Lions International). Federal programs serving the deaf are reviewed and the role of the volunteer is discussed. Future programdevelopment plans (which resulted from the conference) are reported by representative teams from seven states: Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Conference exhibitors are listed and conference evaluation forms are provided. Appendixes include hints for the new user of manual communication, an outline of how the Lions Club can help the deaf, and the program agenda. (LS) *********************************************************************** * Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. nevertheless,items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects thequality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makesavailable * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * * responsible for the quality of the original document.Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from theoriginal. * *********************************************************************** I U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION r1-4i DU( UME NTHA',NE EN kt PkO CK:t F D F XAC It RECE,,ED FROM THF PEI / AN nu DE.C.,AN,ZAT,CIft OR,t,,N A Try, ."POINT`, J, Ok ,DF,N ON% STATED DO NONE CESSAP;i V 1..EF'kE , SENT 0,C:A, NA, iONAL ,NSTTUTF 0, EDLA Ai POYTiON OP pot ,c, 4 PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FOR AND WITH DEAF PEOPLE 1. October 9-12, 1973 Sponsored by the Office of Public Service Programs, Gallaudet College and the Cooperative Extension Service, University of Maryland, with the National Association of the Deaf, cooperating. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FOR AND WITH DEAF PEOPLE Program Content Purpose and Plan of the Conference Dr. A. June Bricker Gallaudet College- - A Continuing Resource Mr. Albert Pimentel Getting to Know You "Interpersonal Awareness" Dr. Robert Mehan "On Stage: A Slice of Life" Mr. Gilbert Eastman Mr. Eric Malzkuhn "Sign On: American Sign Language in Your Community Programs" Mr. William Madsen "An Insight Into My Deaf World" Mrs. Ruth Petersen "Diagnosis and Treatment of the Deaf--Guidelines for the Family Physician" Dr. Peter Fine Tell It Like It Is Parents tell how they and their Mrs. JoAnn Pelarski children cope with problems of Deaf mother of hearing everyday living children Mrs. Jackie Poorbaugh Hearing mother with deaf child Mr. John Hines Hearing father with deaf child The deafened and hard of hearing Anonymous Contributor adult tells how he copes with Sudden partial hearing loss problems of everyday living Miss Jean Mulrooney The newly deafened Mrs. Muriel Wilson. The deafened senior citizen Mr. Wallace Edington The deafened senior citizen iii Resources To Help (The parent and the child) Mr. Albert Pimentel School for the Deaf Mr. Richard S. Clark Division of Vocational Rehabilitat;on Mr. Louis Aymard Anne Arundel Community College Mrs. Lois Williams Extension Volunteer Mrs, Margaret Nitkoski Extension Volunteer* Dr. Glenn Lloyd Deafness & Research Center, New York City (The Deafened Adult) Mr. Harry F. Walker Maryland Commission on Aging Mrs, Paulette Pidcock University Hospital Mr, Fred Burbank Lions International Mr, Robert Lynch International Business Machines, Inc. Other Resources To Help "Public Programs in Americas Reaching Citizens With Senator J. Glenn Beall, Jr. Unique Needs" Maryland "The Role of the Volunteer" Miss Faye Nichols Former Extension Home Economist "Goals Assessment" (program planning) Dr. Thomas Mayes Gallaudet College State Team Reports Florida Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts North Carolina Pennsylvania Virginia The Maryland Story Exhibits Conference Evaluation Mrs. Ella Mae Berdahl Appendix iv Purpose and Plan of the Conference Dr. A. June Bricker . Department Head State Leader' Extension Home Economics University of, Maryland It might help for me to exrlain how and why this parti- ular conference came into being --A National Conference on Program evelopment for and with Deaf People. ,-It is no accident that we are here today. There may be a !ore-rational development of this conference than first appears; At the outset, the climate at both the Maryland Cooperative Extension Service and Gallaudet College was conducive for such a joint effort. Extension had intensified its commitment to reach Ile. audiences, and Gallaudet College was expanding its public service programs. To say that Extension's involvement with deaf people began with an agent and deaf volunteer gives a distorted picture, because again the climate in the organization had its influence. Our development had renewed not only its intent to serve new audiences, but also staff development . opportunities for working with blind people had already alerted staff to audiences with unique needs. And so the Extension Home Economist and the deaf volunteer came together. The creativeness and dedication of each of these persons opened wide the doors of opportunity. That the volunteer was a Gallaudet graduate had advantages. Skills in human relations and patience in program development were required to achieve the success that initiated programs in two other adjacent counties. Gallaudet College, through its Office of Public Service Programs, saw in Maryland's program a service to deaf people that might be possible throughout the United States. The seed was planted. Maryland Extension Service saw its opportunity to provide leadership. Eighteen months later this conference was born. On the planning committee were professional staff members from Extension Service--Federal, State and County representation? from Gallaudet College--representatives from the Departments of Public Service Programs and Continuing Education? from the National 1 Association of the Deaf, and volunteersfrom the deaf community and Extension Homemakers. In developing this nationalconference, members of the planning group agreed that newdimensions had been added to their own professional andpersonal growth and development. With the objectives determined, it waslogical to build into the conference a framework thatwould facilitate cooperativeefforts when the conferees returned to theirstates. A unique feature of this conference is its focus on the family--recognizingthe interdependence of both human and societal resourceswithin the family and community. State Leaders of Extension HomeEconomics were asked to take the initiative in getting together astate team of no less thanfive members representative of appropriateagencies and volunteers from both the deaf and hearingcommunities. The state teams were to use the national conference to becomebetter acquainted, relate the program content totheir state situation and lay somegroundwork for developing a plan of action to programwith the deaf community. The success of this conference canonly be partially deter- mined in light of the programpresented. What happens after the excitement of the conference ispassed and we return to busy schedules is the measure of success. Will we dare return to pro- grams as usual, orwill we accept the challenge toshare our vision of extended and expanded servicewith people who can help us make things happen?Our experiences here shouldsupport the very funda- mentals of program developmentfor and with people,. Galitiadet College - -A ContinuingResource Mr. Albert T. Pimentel,Director Public Service Programs Gallaudet College Gallaudet College is a multi-purposeinstitution serving national and international needs. In a comparativelysmall student almost popu3ation of twelve hundred,there are students representing nations.' With the signing every state andapproximately ten foreign College by Abraham Lincolnduring the war of the Charter of the to serve between the states, GallaudetCollege received its mandate the largest and longest deaf people.Gallaudet College represents continuing effort in servicesto deaf people in theUnited States. 2 For many years, in addition to providing a liberal arts program for deaf students,