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1	Social-emotional competency : enhancing the achievement abilities of deaf and hard-of-hearing persons Viljoen, Tasme 01 1900 (has links) South Africa has a dearth of deaf appropriate assistive resources – giving rise to deaf adolescents leaving school early and poor adult outcomes. These factors are negatively influenced by the interaction of other elements such as the inadequate cultural and social nurturing and lack of support. Approached from a bio-ecological model, to pro-actively address the support needed by deaf and hard-of-hearing persons to empower them to develop the capacity to withstand the challenges they have to endure, to stand up to and resist the negative ideas about what they are capable of. In this study, major risk factors were identified as communication deprivation and unpreparedness of parents to raise a deaf child appropriately where mediating factors were identified as social-emotional competence and deaf teaching assistants at South African Schools for the Deaf. The main findings of this study were that the need for early training of parents, access to Sign Language, deaf role models and social-emotional training in SA schools for the Deaf are proposed pathways to well-being. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology) Cultural deaf Audiological deaf Hard-of-hearing Hearing impaired Speechreading Sign language Well-being Social-emotional competence Adolescents Bio-ecological Deaf teaching assistants 362.420830968 Deafness in children -- South Africa Deaf -- Education -- South Africa Sign language

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Social-emotional competency : enhancing the achievement abilities of deaf and hard-of-hearing persons