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Aims and Scope
The American Annals of the Deaf is a scholarly journal dedicated to quality in education and related services for d/Deaf or hard of hearing children and adults. First published in 1847, the Annals is the oldest English-language journal dealing with deafness and the education of d/Deaf or hard of hearing persons.
The Annals focuses primarily on the education of d/Deaf or hard of hearing students and on information for professionals associated with the educational development of these students. At the same time, the Annals historically has extended its range of topics beyond education and incorporated the broad interests of educators in the general well-being of d/Deaf or hard of hearing children and adults to represent the diversity of its professional readership. Among the topics covered in its pages are:
Communication methods and strategies
Language and literacy development
Mainstreaming and residential schools
Parent-child relationships
Social and emotional development
Teacher preparation and teaching skills
Each year the Annals publishes four issues (Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter) and an annual reference issue of schools and programs in the United States and Canada for students who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing and their teachers. The reference issue is widely known for its comprehensive listings of schools and programs nationwide. The reference issue also provides demographic and educational data about students who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing and the schools they attend.
Journal information
AAD is indexed and abstracted in the following services: ERIC, CINAHL, ProQuest Central plus other ProQuest sub-databases (Communication Sciences, Education, Linguistics and Language, Linguistics, Nursing and Allied Health, Psychology), PubMed.gov, APA Psych Info, OmniFile Mega Text, Web of Science, and Scopus.
Journal statistics
AAD’s acceptance rate is in the range of 20-25%.
Publication fee
There is a fee of $35 per submission. The fee helps offset the cost associated with using Scholastica. All entities involved in the administration and production of the Annals are mission-based nonprofits with limited resources available to fully fund a submissions portal. For a modest fee, the authors benefit from the streamlined workflow that Scholastica provides, allowing publishing decisions to be made more quickly.
Sponsors and affiliated institutions
AAD is the official organ of the Council of American Instructors of the Deaf (CAID) and of the Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf (CEASD) and is directed and administered by a Joint Annals Administrative Committee made up of members of the executive committees of both of these organizations.