Janice D. Stovall Papers, 1938-1984

Scope and Content Note

Some papers pertain to her oversight of the care of the elderly in nursing homes as chief of the Facilities Assistance Section of the Department of Health and Social Services. The papers emphasize a communication status chart Stovall developed to test brain injured persons, hearing tests for the elderly, and workshops for nursing home training, which are also documented by sound recordings and 35mm color slides. The collection also contains scripts, films and lesson plans produced by HEAR with a grant from the federal government to teach lip reading via television. The films were broadcast on WISC-TV in 1958. Other papers document a visual aid project to promote health education among rural Wisconsin school children in the late 1940s, and her work with deaf children during the 1930s.