PUB TYPE Speeches/Conference Papers (150)-- Reports

As part of an effort to help preschool classroom teachers of the hearing impaired identify those children at risk in developing positive peer relationships, information was collected on 100 children with hearing impairments and 82 children with normal hearing. For hearing impaired subjects, data were collerfted on age, gender, age of onset of hearing loss, severity of loss, length of enrollment in current program, number of other group experiences, communicative program philosophy, time spent mainstreamed, and time spent freely interacting with other children. Hearing subjects were examined in terms of age, gender, number of group experiences, and number of older and younger siblings. In addition, for the hearing children, a language age was computed, using a combined auditory comprehension and verbal ability scale from the Preschool Language Scale. Peer social behavior was randomly sampled, with recording