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Students
who seek speech-language instruction are
representative of the population of deaf and hard of hearing
students at NTID/RIT. Demographic information collected
on students enrolled in speech-language instruction over
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 62%
are pursuing associate degrees through the College of
NTID 38%
are pursuing Bachelor's degrees through other colleges
of the Institute
81
% of the students were in mainstreamed environments
19%
came NTID/RIT from schools for the deaf
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 NTID/RIT
is seeing an increasing number of
students with cochlear implants.
This
increase is reflected in the speech-language instructional
caseload. This year:
20%
of the students with cochlear implants pursued speech-language
instruction
69%
of these students had received their cochlear implants
within the last two years.
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| For more information on NTID's cochlear
implant program, go to www.rit.edu/NTID/CI. |
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students' previous experience with speech-language therapy
varied from minimal to extensive, with 27% indicating they
had received extensive instructional services from preschool
through high school. Conversely, 20% of the students who
seek instruction have had minimal prior experience. |
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students also varied in their preferred
mode of communication upon entry to NTID/RIT: |
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A
battery of formal and informal tests is administered to
all students receiving speech-language instruction. Measures
of speech intelligibility reveal diversity in the students
seeking speech-language instruction. |
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Incoming
Data reveals the following:
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Prior
to beginning instruction students are asked to self-rate
their intelligibility and self-rate
their confidence using speech:
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The
diversity of this data indicates that few
assumptions can be made about who will or will not seek
speech-language instruction at NTID/RIT. This diversity
presents a welcome challenge to the speech-language pathologists
who will be serving
these students. |
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Students tend to seek instruction
with a basic notion of wanting to improve their communication
with hearing people, particularly those they will be encountering
on the job. Through instructional interaction, students
come to understand what is involved in improving their communication
with hearing people and what their potential is for achieving
that goal.
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