1. What is the current economic and social situation on St. Lucia? Has it made progress since the Nieminen's lived there?

2. How are hearing-impaired children educated in your community? To what school services are they legally entitled? Do they communicate by reading lips and speaking and writing or by using American sign language, or by a combination of both?

3. Interview hearing-impaired persons and compare their experiences with Nieminen's.

4. What protection do adult persons with hearing impairments have under American law and under St. Lucia law?

5. Interview a teacher of the hearing impaired (and if possible attend a class) to determine how they help deaf children master not only English and American sign language but other subjects as well. Communicate with the hearing-impaired students to discover what problems they have in school and compare them with those of hearing students.

6. What progress...