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Article: Early career job satisfaction for full-time workers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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This study presents the results of a quantitative study of job satisfaction (i.e., the degree to which an employee feels good or bad about his or her job) for a sample of deaf and hard of hearing alumni of postsecondary education programs. Hearing-impaired people comprise almost ten percent of the nation's working-age population (ages 16-64). Within this population, about 500,000 individuals became deaf before age 19, 2.2 million became deaf between age 20 and 64, and about 9.6 million people aged 16-64 are hard of hearing. These figures were derived by the authors based on prevalence estimates provided by the National Center for Health Statistics (Reis, 1994) and ...