Consistent with earlier research, results showed that teachers had inadequate knowledge of ASL and the role that the Deaf community plays in the education of deaf children. Recommendations are made for pre-inservice teacher training in ASL and current issues related to education of deaf students. The objective of this Canadian Association of the Deaf project was to gain insight into Deaf persons' observations and experiences as former students in mainstreamed schools and their transition to adult life. This paper is a review of literature about how and when children acquire temporal concepts. Interest in this topic arose from questions about the role time and calendar concepts play in the daily classroom experience of children with hearing losses.
Temporal concepts considered include the clock, calendar, historical time, and chronology.
The stages at which children acquire these concepts are presented as well as a review of the effect of language acquisition on the acquisition of temporal understandings. Finally, this paper explores the suggestion that a more formal structure of temporal concepts in the curriculum is needed and suggests the need for future studies of deaf children's acquisition of time concepts. The overall quality of life of an individual is an integral aspect of one's well being. The physical aspect of quality of life may be influenced by a number of factors such as physical fitness levels. However, there could also be factors that indirectly affect one's quality of life by parlaying the levels attained by individual components leading to the overall outcome.