| Description |
The foundation of my project centers around the Hegelian analysis of the history and modern-day status of the conflict within the field of deaf education. My method of procedure has been: (1) an analysis of the history of special edu.cation for the deaf (most of this material being gleaned from Fred DeLand's exhaustive study of The Story of Lipreading, with additional sources as noted); (2) review of the most recent literature concerned with the attitudes, philosophies, and conflict in the field; (3) personal discussions with students both at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University (where, ironically, I found a division between the two university groups, at least as far as I was able to contact individual students); and (4) a review of my personal experiences with (a) deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals in my family, and (b) contact with the pre-graduate program in deaf education at the University of Utah, its professors, and fellow students. My goal was to determine if the bitter controversy and division between adherants of one system or another had or could possibly in the future realize long-range achievement of individualism; if not, then was the reactionism of professionals and lay justified, particularly in view of the division that is created within the deaf populace itself. |
