title: McCay Vernon: award for distinguished senior career contributions to psychology in the public interest.
abstract: Presents a citation for McCay Vernon, who received the Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest "for fifty-five years of distinguished contributions toward improving the lives of both deaf and deaf-blind individuals." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Vernon's award address, The APA and Deafness. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002648:Child; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D003638:Deafness; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000266:history; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States