Dear friends,

I am a graduate student in Education at the University of Tennessee. As part of
the requirements for a research class in music education I designed a
questionnaire to colect data for my research project. The study intends to
determine which techniques (if any) have been used to teach music for the deaf.

If you have any experience in music education for the deaf and would like to
help me with this project, your help would be very much appreciated. 

If you also want to exchange some ideas about the subject matter, feel yourself
welcome. I have been working in this area for a while (in Brazil _ by the way,
I am Brazilian _ and also in US) and I am very pleased with the results.

I hope that this inquiry will not cause too many inconveniences. Thank you for
or time and consideration.


                         __QUESTIONNAIRE__
                  Teaching Music for deaf children.

NAME ________________________________
ADDRESS/ E-MAIL _____________________
EMPLOYING INSTITUTION _______________
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE_________ GRADE LEVEL(S)____
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:BACHELOR__ MASTERS__ DOCTORATE__
PROFESSIONAL FIELD:SPECIAL EDUC.__  MUSIC EDUC.__ OTHER*__
*If you checked "other", please indicate your major: ____

	Some school systems require music to be taught to deaf children, other
school systems have not thought of the possibility to teach music for children
with hearing limitations. The following questionnaire was designed to find out
how teachers face the issue of teaching or not teaching music for the deaf.
Also, a part of this study is to determine teachers attitudes towards music
programs for deaf children.

	DIRECTIONS:
	READ THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS AND CIRCLE THE NUMBER THAT BEST DESCRIBES
YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS MUSIC FOR DEAF CHILDREN (LEFT COLUMN), AND CIRCLE THE
APPROPRIATE "YES", "NO" OR "NOT APPLICABLE", WHETHER YOU DO THE TASK (RIGHT
COLUMN).

SD= Strongly disagree			Y= yes
DIS= Disagree				N= no
NEU= Neutral				N/A= not applicable
AG= Agree
SA= Strongly agree

SD  DIS  NEU  AG  SA		COMPETENCIES			Y  N  N/A
___________________________________________________________________________
1   2    3    4   5	1.Deaf children can be educated in      y  n  n/a
 			music.
1   2    3    4   5	2.Deaf children should have regular     y  n  n/a
			music classes.
1   2    3    4   5	3.A special music teacher must posses   y  n  n/a
			an appropriate training in a variety
			of communication methods to use with
			deaf children.
1   2    3    4   5	4.In preparing the lessons the teacher  y  n  n/a
			must keep in mind that deaf children
			may present special needs in order to
			participate in musical activities.
1   2   3     4   5	5.Deaf and normal hearing children   	y  n  n/a
			should have music classes together.
1   2   3     4   5	6. 80% of a succesful music experience  y  n  n/a
			by a deaf child depends upon the
			teacher's creativity and commitment
			with the subject matter.
1   2   3     4   5	7.Deaf children can learn to appreciate y  n  n/a
			music but they will never be a musician
			or a performer.
1   2   3     4   5	8.Deaf children are not able to		y  n  n/a
			discriminate and recognize sounds.
1   2   3     4   5	9.Deaf children can not distinguish	y  n  n/a
			among loud and soft sounds.
1   2   3     4   5	10.Deaf children can never match the    y  n  n/a
			music in their head to a note on a
			musical instrument.
1   2   3     4   5	11.The most appropriate material to	y  n  n/a
			start music classes for the deaf
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