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Deaf adolescents' knowledge of AIDS. Grade and gender effects
N Baker-Duncan1, J Dancer, B Gentry
1McCain Professional Hearing Services, Little Rock, USA.
American Annals of the Deaf
|January 24, 1998
Abstract:
Adolescents attending 5 state schools for the deaf responded to a 35-item questionnaire designed to probe their knowledge of AIDS. The 129 students in grades 9-12 had extremely limited core knowledge of AIDS, with the correct answers to only 8 of the 35 questions known by most students in all 4 grades. A minority of males and females knew the answers to most questions, indicating that AIDS education programs for deaf adolescents are urgently needed.