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Research Recommendations of the Second Conference on Problems of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council (1929) / Chapter Skim
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Problems of Emotional and Social Adjustment
Pages 34-37

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From page 34...
... The detailed emotional consequences of auditory deficiency.The Conference especially recorn~nends systematic and detailed investigation of the specific emotional effects and changes entailed through auditory deficiency, such as timidity, suspicion, depression, feelings of inferiority, resentment, apathy, etc. Differential erects should be correlated with degrees of deficiency, age, period of incidence, training before and after incidence, organic conditions and cultural circumstances.
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From page 35...
... New York, Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore would meet the requirements from these points of view. Proximity of important existing institutions for hearing disability, such as the proposed nursery school, Gallaudet College, or the Clarke School for the Deaf, would be an important consideration.
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From page 36...
... Able applicants with hearing disabilities of their own should have consideration from the standpoint of their primary interest, and aptitude for personal contact with the case material. The remaining special personnel would include a secretary to take care of the business affairs of the institute, a clerk to look after record keeping and the posting of data for statistical use, and a mechanician responsible chiefly to the experimental psychologist.
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From page 37...
... The chief reservation flows from the fact that data accumulated during such a period, on matters dealing with social adjustment, accumulate value with the length of the individual's life; so that, assuming the termination of an intensive research program at the end of five years, provisions should be made for such follow-up work as is practicable of cases with whom the institute has worked, for a longer period-perhaps ten years more. The machinery for doing this could probably be provided through a neighboring permanent institution with an active social service department, the data being periodically reviewed from the background of clinical and social psychology.
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