Assessment and Education of Deaf-Blind Children. Proceedings of the Special Study Institute (Los Angeles, CA, March 17-19, 1978).

The document contains nine conference papers which address several approaches to assessment of deaf blind children. Entries include the following titles and authors: "Parent-Teacher Relationships and the Deaf-Blind Child" (M. Schleifer); "Congenital Rubella--The Teenage Years" (P. Ziring); "Psychological Assessment" (guidelines for assessing the deaf blind or otherwise multihandicapped child) by D. Overbeck; "Functional Visual Assessment of Deaf-Blind Children" (M. Efron); "Professional Burn-Out--How to Avoid It" (L. Spaniol); "Educational Assessment" (P. Busset); "Assessment for Prevocational Training" (R. Lecours); "Audiological Assessment" (assessment of auditory threshold, auditory discrimination, auditory recognition and comprehension, auditory discomfort, auditory localization, audition supplemented by vision and taction, auditory monitoring of speech, and other communication abilities) by E. Sheeley; and "Assessment Techniques in the Classroom" (D. Bremer). (SBH)