Digest in English The master thesis called Hearing parents - Deaf child addresses issues concerning the specific situation of hearing parents with a hearing-impaired child. It deals with the main influences affecting what parents experience in this state of affairs. Based on Czech and foreign resources, the thesis specifies both theoretically and practically these influences on parental experiences. Firstly, general aspects which affect experiences in relation to any type of child's disability are introduced, with particular focus on specifics in case of hearing impairment. Secondly, those occurrences are described which parents are confronted with only if they raise a hearing-impaired child. The theoretical part deals with the etiology of hearing impairment and with abnormal features in child development, with emphasis on the field of communication. Further, it pursues the subjects of education and cochlear implants. Feelings and experiences of families with deaf children are also explored. Moreover, the system of care for children with hearing impairment and their families is examined. Finally, a short overview of the life of the Deaf is presented. In the practical part, the results gained from an analysis of six interviews with parents are presented. This part attempts to record how the parents of deaf...

L’objet de cet étude est de présenter l’utilisation du jeu comme thérapie musicale et théâtrale (dramathérapie) pour personnes sourdes afin de retrouver le caractère ludique et amusant de la thérapie et aussi pour  faciliter leur intégration à l’Université. Ceci est fondamental dans la thérapie et l’exploration du  plaisir partagé à travers le jeu, le déroulement expressif et créateur de chaque Sourd et sa participation physique et émotionnelle et ludique au sein du groupe. / The object of this study is to present the use of the game as therapy musical and theatrical (dramatherapy) for Deaf people to find the playful and funny character of the therapy and also to facilitate their integration to the University. This is fundamental in the therapy and the exploration of the pleasure shared through the game, the meaning and creative progress of every Deaf person and his physical and emotional and playful participation within the group.

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This study aimed to describe the educational experiences of deaf adolescent learners attending a school for the deaf in South Africa. The specific objectives of the current study included: (a) obtaining a detailed description of the educational experiences of deaf adolescent learners; (b) establishing with which rhetoric (medical vs. cultural) the deaf adolescents could best identify; (c) establishing the potential influence on individual identity development of the established affiliations with the opposing models of deafness. Ten deaf adolescents ranging between 14 and 16 years, attending a single school for the deaf were selected as participants for the current study. A basic research design and a qualitative approach, embedded within the theory of social constructivism were employed. Two pilot studies were conducted in order to establish the feasibility of the current study. Thereafter, interviews as per the ‘interview guide approach’ were administered. Field observations within the school context and file reviews were also conducted. Thematic content analysis was employed and the identified themes were described qualitatively. Results revealed the emergence of three themes. Within these themes, the adolescents’ experiences included: limited SASL role models both at home and at school, negative educational encounters as well as positivity and hope for the future. Experiences characteristic of the medical model and socio-cultural model of deafness were reported and factors affecting these affiliations were described. The researcher concluded that a level of affiliation with both the medical and the sociocultural models of deafness existed for the participants. The impact of these affiliations on identity construction was explored and a model of identity development, the multiculturalexperience model, was proposed. The education of deaf individuals in South Africa shows room for significant growth. By adjusting government education policies for deaf education as well as supporting the goals of early intervention, deaf learners can reach their full potential regardless of the mode of communication favoured.

Thesis advisor: Susan M. Bruce / The effects of deafblindness are much greater than simply combining the effects of the individual’s vision loss with the effects of their hearing loss, because these senses strongly support one another (Silberman, Bruce, & Nelson, 2004). Even though most individuals have some residual vision and hearing, deafblindness limits access to the environment, resulting in a distorted perception of the immediate surroundings (van Dijk, Janssen, & Nelson, 2001). The implications greatly limit the individual’s opportunities for incidental learning and significantly impact the individual’s language and communication development (Bruce, 2005; Miles & Riggio, 1999). For children with deafblindness, there is a strong connection between literacy and communication, since engaging in accessible literacy activities can support learning and communication development (Downing, 2005b). When understood as exchanging information with others in a variety of ways based on personal experiences, literacy has inherent communicative and social components (Bruce et al., 2004). This qualitative research study investigated how teachers were implementing read alouds for children with congenital deafblindness, as well as teacher’s understandings regarding the relationship between communication and literacy for individuals with deafblindness. Three case studies were conducted, followed a cross-case analysis to determine prominent themes that emerged from the observation, interview and field note data. Results included the emergence of themes related to teacher beliefs, instructional strategies and the learning environment across cases. The major theme that emerged for teacher beliefs was a shared understanding of the connection between communication and literacy for children with deafblindness, and the minor theme was comprehensive understanding of deafblindness. Major themes that emerged for instructional strategies were the use of total communication with different levels of representation, communication modeling, and positive reinforcement, as well as the minor theme of formative assessment. Finally, for the learning environment, a major theme of adapted materials emerged, as well as a minor theme of technology. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

Esta pesquisa analisa os primeiros marcadores de aquisição de língua de sinais em uma criança surda, filha de pais ouvintes em um ambiente onde a língua foi propiciada por meio de interlocutores Surdos e ouvintes, usuários da Libras. Ao considerarmos que, a criança surda tem seu desenvolvimento de linguagem construído prioritariamente na escola especial, discutiremos o papel dos interlocutores envolvidos nessa relação e procuraremos compreender o efeito do ambiente na construção da língua de sinais em crianças surdas, filhas de pais ouvintes. O trabalho se fundamenta na teoria histórico-social de Vygotsky e seus seguidores, pressupondo a linguagem como constitutiva do conhecimento e construtora de sentidos. A pesquisa foi realizada, na Escola para Crianças Surdas Rio Branco da Fundação de Rotarianos de São Paulo onde foi criado no ano de 2001 o Programa de Estimulação do Desenvolvimento. A fonoaudióloga e atual pesquisadora, junto com um instrutor surdo nesse programa que tem por objetivos principais a aquisição da língua de sinais das crianças inscritas e o aprendizado da língua pelos pais. A pesquisa se desenvolveu nesse espaço e o material colhido durante a realização do Programa teve quatro episódios recortados, que aqui serão apresentados e discutidos. O material foi analisado em uma perspectiva microgenética buscando, o efeito de do ambiente e evidenciando as marca do desenvolvimento da língua de sinais e seus efeitos na relação e na aquisição da língua. Desse material analisado, concluímos que o pressuposto de linguagem a partir do qual concebemos a criança Surda é determina os serviços que oferecemos a ela, assim ao concebermos a linguagem como constitutiva do sujeito. Modificando o modo de significar esses sujeitos e podemos nos organizar socialmente de modo que a criança Surda possa nascer culturalmente. Esses pressupostos devem ser colocados em trabalhos que se destinem a bebês Surdos, pois somente o trabalho com bebês Surdos que contemple a interlocução com um outro significativo Surdo possibilitará o pleno desenvolvimento lingüístico, social e cultural desse bebê como alguém que pertencerá a uma comunidade de iguais na sua diferença, mas que compartilham a mesma língua e a mesma visão de mundo. / This research analyses the first markers of Sign Language acquisition in a deaf child from hearing parents in an environment where the language was present by Deaf and hearing partners who use Libras. Considering that the deaf child has the development of language built mainly at the special school, we will discuss the role of the interlocutors involved in this relationship and we will try to understand the effect of the environment on the construction of Sign Language in Deaf children from hearing parents. This work is derived from Vigotsky social-historical theory and his followers. We understand that language constitutes the foundation of knowledge and is responsible for the construction of meanings. The research took place at the Escola para Crianças Surdas Rio Branco da Fundação de Rotarianos de São Paulo where the Development Stimulation Program was created in 2001. The language therapist, who is also the researcher, worked together with a Deaf instructor in this Program and they had, as main objective, the acquisition of Sign language by the children enrolled in the Program and the learning of sign language by the parents. The research was developed at the school and the material that will be presented and discussed is based on four sessions that were selected from the Program. The data was analyzed in a micro genetic perspective searching the effect of the environment and evidencing the development marks of the Sign Language and its effects in the language relation and acquisition. From the material analyzed we concluded that the projected way we consider language and how we perceive the Deaf child is what establishes the services that are offered to him/her. So, when we conceive language as a tool for the constitution of the human being, we modify the way we represent the Deaf child and we can organize ourselves in a social way that allows the child to be born culturally. These assumptions must be used in works that are intended to Deaf babies because only the work with Deaf babies contemplates the interrelation with one Deaf significant that will allow the baby cultural, social and linguistic entire development as someone that will belong to a community of equals in their difference but that share the same language and the same world comprehension.

Scotland’s oral traditions have received scholarly attention since the 18th Century; however, collection and analysis has exclusively focused on those passed on ‘by word of mouth,’ and the traditional arts of Scotland’s deaf communities have been overlooked. This thesis begins to address this oversight by examining storytelling practices passed on ‘by sign of hand’ in British Sign Language (BSL). Neither fully acculturated to majority society nor ‘foreigners in their own country’ (Murray 2008:102), signing-deaf people have distinct ways of ‘doing’ culture which involve negotiating a bilingual-bicultural continuum between the hearing and deaf worlds. The historical exclusion of signing-deaf culture from conceptualisations of Scotland’s cultural heritage is increasingly being challenged, both overtly and tacitly, through an emergent ‘deaf public voice’ (Bechter 2008:72); in light of this, I consider three case-studies in which BSL storytelling practices have been placed in the public domain. Drawing on fieldwork, interviews and the in-depth analysis of BSL performance-texts, I examine the ways in which signing-deaf biculturality is expressed and performed, and consider the artistry involved in storytelling in a visual-spatial-kinetic language. In so doing, a working methodology is proposed for presenting signed material to non-signers, laying the groundwork for further collection and analysis. Applying Bauman and Murray’s concept of ‘Deaf Gain’ (2009), I argue that the study of this new corpus of oral material has a radical contribution to make to the field of ethnology and folklore, not least in highlighting phonocentric assumptions embedded in the study of oral traditions. I emphasise the extent to which the transmission of culture is predicated on particular ‘techniques of the body’ (Mauss 1973), and argue that, in drawing on different modality-specific affordances, both spoken and signed storytelling should be understood as part of the totality of Scotland’s ‘corp-oral’ traditions through which culture is transmitted ‘by performance of body.’

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In recent years much interest has been focused on the manner in which the young child acquires language. Some researchers (Chomsky, 1965; McNeil) have postulated an inherent capacity to comprehend and utilize linguistic structures, while others such as Irwin, (1960), Hess and Shipman (1965), and Greenstein, et al, (1974) have focused on experiential determinants of language competence in early childhood. As with all children, the social and emotional behavior of deaf children is greatly influenced by their ability to communicate with significant others. Interactions between the normally developing child and his parents are characterized by mutual responsiveness, where each initiates and reciprocates communication. When a Child's language development is delayed or impaired(as with a hearing loss), this communication process may also become impaired, with parents being unable to respond appropriately to confused or reduced messages from the child. This paper reviews some of the pertinent research regarding the behavioral interaction between the parent and child and its effect on communication and psychosocial development. The implications of this data for the hearing-impaired child and his family are considered. It will address the question," What is it that parents with young hearing impaired children do that facilitates or impedes speech and language development?" A methodology is also presented for developing effective communication between such children and their parents.

This investigation was conducted to determine whether the removal of hearing aids from these children for eighteen hours (+ 1/2 hour and including sleep time) would result in reduced speech intelligibility as perceived by a panel of listening judges who were unfamiliar with the speech of the deaf.