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 			would be the folk songs said he would be replaced by the military commandant of Baku, police Major-General Abdullah Allakhverdiyev. There was no official confirmation.