title: Changing times, changing society: implications for professionals in deaf education.
abstract: Significant demographic shifts among school-aged deaf children in the United States have not mirrored similar shifts in the teaching force, which remains predominantly White. The importance of exposing children from ethnically diverse minority backgrounds to role models who have firsthand knowledge and understanding of issues they face is discussed and the strategies needed to attract minority professionals into the field of deaf education are identified.
authors.affiliation: National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY 14623-5604, USA. RNRCSR@rit.edu
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Redding
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003638:Deafness; D004519:Education, Special; D006801:Humans; D012813:Sign Language