title: Support services in schools for the hearing- impaired in Canada.
abstract: A questionnaire was sent to the principals of 20 schools for the hearing-impaired across Canada seeking data on the types and numbers of professional support staff utilized by them. In addition the schools were asked to express opinions regarding the additional number of professionals in various disciplines that should be employed. The most commonly employed professionals were audiologists and the least common otolaryngologists. The greatest need was said to be for a vast increase in the number of speech therapists available, although among them the schools employed less than the equivalent of one such full-time person.
mesh_terms: D001298:Audiology; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D010036:Otolaryngology; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012572:School Health Services; D012574:Schools