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Microcomputers in Education: Age of Romance, or Age of Reason?

The purpose of this paper is to review and comment on the papers presented at the 1982 national Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf. The specific title of the symposium was "Microcomputers in Education of the Hearing Impaired." Overall, the presentations provided practical and commonsense suggestions for curricula, implementation, communication, and selection of equipment. A strong point of the entire Symposium was the fact that the suggestions and ideas discussed were extensively based on applied experiences. Limitations of the papers pertained primarily to the lack of data-based research.It is recommended that research be coordinated with the curriculum efforts to provide a comprehensive documentation of what specific changes occurred with hearing-impaired learners as the result of using microcomputers. Without research, the potential of microcomputers will probably never be achieved in education of the hearing impaired.