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From: dak2@mtuxt.UUCP (D.KALL)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: RE: the new handicapped net
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 20:49:34 EDT
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Subject: RE: the new handicapped net
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Fred Christiansen congrats. You have had an uncommon experience.
Most handicapped individuals are not lucky enough to have parents
and family who care and understand enough to seek out information 
like you do for your child.
Here is some info you may already have:
There was a fair article on coclear implants in the (I think) February
issue of Science in 1984.
You can look in Psychology Abstracts to direct you to relevant perceptual
research. Psychologists do a lot of sensory research. The old "tell me your
problems", is just a bad stereotype.
The American Annals of the Deaf is a journal that carries relevant articles
on research of all types relating to deafness.
Give Gaulladet College in Washington D.C. a call or a letter.  They are an
entirely hearing impaired/deaf undergraduate college. What am I saying? 
They are THE entirely hearing impaired/deaf undergraduate college.
They know a whole lot if you can find the right individuals.  And they
are most helpful.  It helps to have a TTY when you call incase you have to 
talk to someone who cannot hear.
Youshould try to contact a local chapter of the RID (Registry of Interpreters
for the Deaf) probably called the AZRID where you are. 
There is an organization called (I think) WIRED in one of the lake states.
I will get you there address from my files at home and put it in another
post.

Is there really a handicapped net? Or are we it?  I sent a note to the 
general net yesterday saying I was interested in sensory prosthetic 
devices because I could not find an appropriate net.