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Biennial Report written by the trustees and superintendent of the North Dakota School for the Deaf for the governor.

Biennial Report written by the trustees and superintendent of the North Dakota School for the Deaf for the governor.

This report by the Legislative Audit Council reviews the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blink in order to examine possibilities of mismanagement.

1. Lessons learned from 23 years of a deaf psychiatric inpatient unit / Neil S. Glickman -- 2. Deaf/hearing cross-cultural conflicts and the creation of culturally competent treatment programs / Michael John Gournaris and Alison L. Aubrecht -- 3. Sign language dysfluency in some deaf persons : implications for interpreters and clinicians working in mental health settings / Neil S. Glickman and Charlene Crump -- 4. Creating a culturally affirmative continuum of mental health services : the experiences of three states / Michael John Gournaris, Steve Hamerdinger, and Roger C. Williams -- 5. Creating culturally and clinically competent deaf residential treatment programs / Neil S. Glickman and Wendy Heines -- 6. Substance abuse treatment and recovery : adaptations to best practices when working with culturally deaf persons / Debra Guthmann and Cynthia Sternfeld -- 7. Culturally affirmative adaptations to trauma treatment with deaf children in a residential setting / Karen Bishop -- 8. Training of mental health professionals : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Patrick J. Brice. [et al.] -- 9. Deaf people in the criminal justice system : is a culturally affirmative response possible or desirable? / Sue O'Rourke, Neil S. Glickman, and Sally Austen -- 10. Deaf mental health research : where we've been and where we hope to go / Neil S. Glickman and Robert Q. Pollard, Jr.

Deafness can and often does present obstacles to the delivery of quality health care. These obstacles are not insurmountable. Overcoming them, however, does require that the health care system and the practitioners in the system make some adaptations and acquire additional information about deafness. This article will look at some of the barriers which impede health care delivery for deaf persons and will offer suggestions for physicians and other medical personnel to use in reducing these barriers.

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the perceptions of deaf individuals about the communication process with health professionals of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Methods: cross-sectional observational study. Data were collected through the application of a questionnaire with quantitative and qualitative questions to 121 deaf adults. Objective responses were studied descriptively through frequency tables and analyzed by inferential statistics and logistic regression. The data from the open questions were analyzed through content analysis. Results: the lack of interpreters and the lack of use of the Brazilian Sign Language by professionals were perceived as the main communication barriers. In turn, the presence of companions who are listeners (73%) and the use of mime/gestures (68%) were among the strategies most used by the deaf. The majority of deaf people reported insecurity in consultations, and those who best understood their diagnosis and treatment were the bilingual deaf (p = 0.0347) and the deaf who used oral communication (p = 0.0056). Conclusion: communication with the professionals was facilitated when the deaf people had a companion or when they used mimics and gestures. Sign language was neglected, despite the fact that the provision of care to the deaf by professionals trained to use this language is guaranteed in the legislation.

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the perceptions of deaf individuals about the communication process with health professionals of the state of Rio de Janeiro. METHODS: cross-sectional observational study. Data were collected through the application of a questionnaire with quantitative and qualitative questions to 121 deaf adults. Objective responses were studied descriptively through frequency tables and analyzed by inferential statistics and logistic regression. The data from the open questions were analyzed through content analysis. RESULTS: the lack of interpreters and the lack of use of the Brazilian Sign Language by professionals were perceived as the main communication barriers. In turn, the presence of companions who are listeners (73%) and the use of mime/gestures (68%) were among the strategies most used by the deaf. The majority of deaf people reported insecurity in consultations, and those who best understood their diagnosis and treatment were the bilingual deaf (p = 0.0347) and the deaf who used oral communication (p = 0.0056). CONCLUSION: communication with the professionals was facilitated when the deaf people had a companion or when they used mimics and gestures. Sign language was neglected, despite the fact that the provision of care to the deaf by professionals trained to use this language is guaranteed in the legislation.

SUMMARYThe deaf population requires special treatment in the dental office. Virtually all published articles in the literature about dental treatment for these persons are reviewed. This population is one of several populations having limited access to care as identified by the ADA. A course developed to address the special needs of persons who are hearing impaired is described. Definitions of persons who are hearing impaired, education of deaf persons, psychosocial aspects of deafness, aids to communication, the deaf community, sign language, and interpreting and interpreters are topics discussed here that will improve dentists' service to deaf persons.The dental professional has the privilege of providing care to all Americans and the hearing‐impaired population has been identified as one having special treatment needs. After exposure to this information, dental students and dentists should become more aware of, and seek more information pertaining to the special needs of deaf persons. It is further hoped that they will make the modifications necessary to accommodate deaf persons as patients.