In the few studies that have been conducted, researchers have typically found that deaf adolescents have more mental health difficulties than their hearing peers and that, within the deaf groups, those who use spoken language have better mental health functioning than those who use sign language. This study investigated the hypotheses that mental health functioning in adolescence is related to an early and consistent mode match between mother and child rather than to the child's use of speech or sign itself. Using a large existing 15-year longitudinal database on children and adolescents with severe and profound deafness, 57 adolescents of hearing parents were identified for whom data on language experience (the child's and the mother's) and mental health functioning (from a culturally and linguistically adapted form of the Achenbach Youth Self Report) was available. Three groups were identified: auditory/oral (A/O), sign match (SM), and sign mismatch (SMM). As hypothesized, no significant difference in mental health functioning was found between the A/O and SM groups, but a significant difference was found favoring a combined A/O and SM group over the SMM group. These results support the notion of the importance of an early and consistent mode match between deaf children and hearing mothers, regardless of communication modality.

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The data presented here were obtained in the course of operating a five 40mm aperture' dipole string. The eighty eight meter long string of dipoles was assembled to test the various proposed operational scenarios of the SSCL collider. As reported earlier, 1 there had been a short control and system (data procurement) checkout run performed on an abbreviated two dipole string. The problems that were then uncovered with the exception of the high 20K shield heat load, were corrected. There has been over 5000 hours of running time on the system, 3000 hours on the five magnet string alone, and to date, no major problems or incidents have occurred. The quench (superconducting to normal transition) performance of the magnet string was excellent, with the exception of four premature quenches that occurred during power supply commissioning. The operational parameters were all found to be manageable or equal to or greater than design. The operational heat loads were within the budget with the exception of the 20K circuit which was a factor of three too high. The relative internal voltages of the magnets have been higher than previously measured in the shorter string by a significant amount. There will be a discussion of concerns and problems plus their possible solution.

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