Classroom teachers' impressions of hearing impaired and deaf children.
180 classroom teachers rated achievement and appearance characteristics of 9 school-age hearing-impaired and deaf children on a semantic differential utilizing 15 bipolar adjectives. A significant difference between normally hearing and hearing-impaired subjects was noted. Hearing aids and the speech of the hearing-impaired and deaf subjects elicit more negative responses.
D000124:Achievement; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology*; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013663:Teaching; D014705:Verbal Behavior