This paper presents an exploratory case study focusing on the acquisition of information, through technologically efficient systems, by the hearing impaired. The multiple-case study was conducted during one school year with seven students participating. While a central question and propositions derived from that question guide the data collection and analysis, this is a hypothesis-building study. The purpose of the study was to generate questions to focus further research of a descriptive or explanatory format. One question, and the propositions generated by it, dominated this research: How do efficient acquisition systems in the classroom effect academic and social behavior, independent activities, or student, peer, and adult expectations? Three propositions directed the data collection/analysis of this research. As knowledge increases in students: (1) the rate of academic production will increase; (2) times of independent activities will be focused on productive projects; (3) self-concept will improve as measured by students, peers and adults. Six sources (documents, physical artifacts, archival records, interviews, direct observations, participant observation) were used to gather data for the analysis of the research project. The results of this study showed that the students who had only the disability of hearing impairment had significantly different experiences throughout this study than those who evidenced intellectual impairments. Generally, their work output was greater, increased more, and reflected a qualitative change. The data gathered from the unstructured activity periods also clearly show a dissimilar experience. The hearing impaired students "grew" into increasingly more productive behaviors while the other group showed, for all practical purposes, no change at all. The analysis of the third proposition was more problematical. The findings are not as clear as the first two propositions because the reporting and recording of data was subject to more interpretation. The indicators may support the proposition that increased learning has a positive effect on self-image. The results from this study have implications for current educational practices for hearing impaired: (1) Computer and video technology need a directedness not now evident. (2) Placement decisions should be based on expectations and achievements of the various populations served. (3) More sophisticated technology should be placed at the disposal of the classroom teacher.

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The two purposes of this study are first, to provide an evaluation of an after-school basic mathematics program at the Demonstration School for the Deaf Junior Secondary School (DemoDeaf) in Mampong-Akuapim, Ghana. Second, it provides an ecological discussion exploring why DemoDeaf students do not have access to quality education. I designed and piloted the math program in 2005 and 2007 as an action researcher and volunteer with the Non-Government Organization (NGO), Signs of Hope International. The program was developed after finding six students in one JSS class could not count to one-hundred and all other students struggled with addition and/or subtraction. The program has been shown quantitatively and qualitatively to have statistically significant and positive effects on DemoDeaf students. In 2007, the number of students proficient in counting increased from thirty-four to forty-four. An analysis of the addition achievement test results indicate students advanced a total of twenty-nine levels; four students learned to add single-digit numbers together, eleven students learned how to add double-digit numbers together, and fourteen students learned how to add triple-digit numbers together. An analysis of the subtraction achievement tests indicate students advanced a total of nineteen levels; six students learned to subtract single-digit numbers, eight students learned how to subtract double-digit numbers, and five students learned how to subtract with triple-digit numbers. Sample-t-tests showed that the increase of students proficient in counting, addition, or subtraction (except for triple-digit subtraction) was statistically significant at the p-value of < .01 or < .05. The stigma and negative stereotypes embedded in the normative culture in Ghana and the majority/minority relations and power dynamics between hearing and deaf groups influence the socializing institutions of the family and deaf schools. The normative hearing culture influences the language choice parents/guardians give their deaf child and how they treat them. The perspectives and values of hearing educators and administrators influence deaf school design and create a hidden curriculum for deaf students. These separate forces meet in the classroom and not only prevent students from receiving a quality secular education, they also reinforce the low status ascription of deaf students in Ghana.

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There is a need to identify a specific test to assess one's Simultaneous Communication skills (a combination of Sign Language with the use of spoken English). The Simultaneous Communication Evaluation and the Sign Communication Proficiency Interview were examined to compare and to determine the reliability and validity for the latter. The Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire was used as an independent variable. Multitrait-multimethod methodology (Campbell and Fiske, 1959) was used to examine construct validity of the two methods of assessing the twenty-eight subjects' communication skills, as well as to show their reliability. The Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire was used as an observation tool to obtain dichotomized scores used to measure subjects' performance in the classroom as compared with the two methods of assessing the subjects' signing skills. Based on the findings of this research, the following conclusions seem justified. A. The Receptive portion of the Simultaneous Communication Evaluation generally showed a weak relationship to the other tests with the exception of the Sign Communication Proficiency Interview's retest, with which it showed only a moderate relationship. This indicates that the Receptive portion may not be a valid way of assessing Sign Language competency. B. Since the Sign Communication Proficiency Interview's test-retest and the inter-rater reliability indicators are moderately high, with their levels of significance being lower than .05, this method of testing may be regarded as an at least moderately reliable means of assessing the faculty members' skills in the use of Simultaneous Communication. C. The correlations for the Simultaneous Communication Evaluation and the Sign Communication Proficiency Interview's test and retest are .8058 and .5477 respectively. The Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire, in general, showed negative correlations with the first two tests with the probability of error being higher than the acceptable .05. One may conclude from this that there is no relationship between the ability to teach and the ability to use Simultaneous Communication. It is anticipated that the outcome of this study will have an impact on various programs and agencies that provide educational and/or social services to the hearing impaired in the United States. At present there is no established, standardized method of evaluating professionals Sign Language skills and this study may well set a precedent in this area. / Ed. D.

During the past few years, Deaf culture has emerged as an important philosophy that could lead to a radical restructuring of Deaf education methods. The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes concerning Deaf culture from teachers of residential based schools for the Deaf who are Deaf and Hearing.Prior to initiating direct contact with the teachers, the superintendents or principals of the selected residential schools were contacted via mail, and their permission secured. In the United States, 279 teachers (69 teachers who are Deaf, 210 teachers who are Hearing) from seven midwest residential based schools for the Deaf and in South Korea 310 teachers (26 teachers who are Deaf, 284 teachers who are Hearing) from all eleven residential based schools for the Deaf participated.Two-factor ANOVA procedures with repeated measures on one factor were utilized to analyze the teachers' attitudes toward Deaf culture in America and South Korea from a 30-question survey using a five-point Likert scale.This study concluded that: (a) Deaf culture was a subculture in mainstream society whether it was a multi- or singular cultural society--although attitudes toward Deaf culture were accepted more negatively in a singular society than those in a multi-cultural society; (b) Deaf culture was accepted by teachers of schools for the Deaf who are Deaf more readily than those who are Hearing in both multi- or singular cultural societies; and (c) there was no significant correlation between attitudes of teachers who were employed at different levels of instruction, such as elementary and middle or secondary school. / Department of Special Education

The purpose of this research is to investigate the genesis of deaf education in Delmiro Gouveia, state of Alagoas. This is a historical research based on the assumptions of Cultural History and Identity and Cultural Studies and covers a time frame between 1981 and 2005. Delmiro Gouveia is a city with a unique industrial history and inherited its name from the pioneer in the energy production with São Francisco river waters. Also, by its geographical location in the state's limits, this is the farthest city from the capital and where, consequently, the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) took longer to be known. We seek to discuss the issue of deafness in the Brazilian sertão based on the first institution to meet deaf in the extreme sertão of Alagoas: the Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional People (APAE) of Delmiro Gouveia, founded in 1981. Data collection was conducted based on documentary research and semi-structured interviews with deaf people, their parents and teachers. We analyze their practices and track which representations about the deaf and deafness were usually constructed and accepted. We showed the actors who participated in the deaf schooling, how they learned Libras in the sertão and how the particular language needs of deaf people were seen in their families and institutional environment. We concluded that activities in APAE did not meet the linguistic and educational needs of the deaf students; that Libras' introduction in Delmiro Gouveia occurred in 1998 through the social worker Elias; and that social representations about deaf people in the observed period relate to the stereotypes associated with a medicalized view of deafness and legitimized speeches that considered deaf people as disabled, aggressive, inefficient and hampered by being born in the sertão. Thus, we intend to contribute to the educational history of the deaf in Alagoas and in the Brazilian Northeast, which is still lacking this kind of investigation. / O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar a gênese da educação de surdos em Delmiro Gouveia, estado de Alagoas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa histórica baseada nos pressupostos da História Cultural e dos Estudos de Identidade e Cultura e abrange um recorte temporal entre 1981 e 2005. Delmiro Gouveia é uma cidade com um peculiar histórico industrial, que herdou o nome do pioneiro na produção energética a partir das águas do Rio São Francisco. Também, por sua localização geográfica nos limites do estado, trata-se da cidade mais distante da capital e onde, consequentemente, a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) demorou mais a ser interiorizada. Procuramos discutir sobre a questão da surdez no sertão a partir da primeira instituição a atender surdos no alto sertão alagoano: a Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (APAE) de Delmiro Gouveia, fundada em 1981. A coleta de dados foi realizada a partir de pesquisa documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas com surdos, pais e professores. Buscamos analisar suas práticas e verificamos quais representações acerca dos surdos e da surdez foram usualmente construídas e aceitas. Evidenciamos os atores que participaram no processo de escolarização dos surdos, como aprenderam Libras no sertão e de que forma as necessidades linguísticas peculiares aos sujeitos com surdez foram percebidas no ambiente institucional e na família. Concluímos que as atividades na APAE não correspondiam às necessidades linguísticas e educacionais dos surdos; que a introdução da Libras em Delmiro Gouveia ocorreu a partir de 1998 por intermédio da assistente social Elis; e que as representações sociais acerca dos surdos no período observado relacionam-se a estereótipos associados a uma visão medicalizada da surdez e legitimaram discursos que os consideravam como deficientes agressivos, incapazes e prejudicados por terem nascido no sertão. Dessa forma, pretendemos contribuir para a historiografia educacional dos surdos em Alagoas e no Nordeste, ainda carente de trabalhos dessa natureza.

Many Deaf people today consider themselves a linguistic minority with a culture distinct from the mainstream hearing society. This is in large part because they communicate through an independent language——American Sign Language (ASL). However, two hundreds years ago, sign language was a “common language” for communication between hearing and deaf people within the institutional framework of “manualism.” Manualism is a pedagogical system of sign language introduced mainly from France in order to buttress the campaign for deaf education in the early-19th-century America. In 1817, a hearing man Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851) and a deaf Frenchman Laurent Clerc (1785-1869) co-founded the first residential school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. These early manualists shaped sign language within the evangelical framework of “moral government.” They believed that the divine origin of signs would lead the spiritual redemption of people who could not hear. Inside manual institutions, the religiously defined practice of signing, which claimed to transform the “heathen deaf” into being the “signing Christian,” enabled the process of assimilation into a shared “signing community.” The rapid expansion of manual institutions hence fostered a strong and separate deaf culture that continues to influence today’s deaf communities in the United States. However, social reformers in the mid-nineteenth century who advocated “oralism” perceived manualism as a threat to social integration. “Oralists” pursued a different model of deaf education in the 1860s, campaigning against sign language and hoping to replace it entirely with the skills in lip-reading and speech. The exploration of this tension leads to important questions: Were people who could not hear “(dis)abled” in the religious context of the early United States? In what ways did the manual institutions train students to become “able-bodied” citizens? How did this religiously framed pedagogy come to terms with the “hearing line” in the mid 19th century? In answering these questions, this dissertation analyzes the early history of manual education in relation to the formation and diffusion of religious governmentality, a topic that continues to influence deaf culture to this day. / published_or_final_version / Modern Languages and Cultures / Master / Master of Philosophy

O ensino da Arte para alunos surdos no Brasil remonta ao período Imperial, por meio do Imperial Instituto de Surdos-Mudos, no Rio de Janeiro. À época, a disciplina de Arte, então nomeada de Desenho, estava incorporada ao currículo, contribuindo para a formação dos alunos surdos. Além disso, presente nas escolas primárias, secundárias e Liceus de Artes e Ofícios, o ensino de Desenho e Arte para surdos acompanhou a tendência da educação nos séculos XIX, XX e XXI. Nas duas últimas décadas, acompanhando o processo de democratização do país, educadores da educação formal e não formal aprofundaram o processo de discussão sobre as bases do ensino da Arte, sustentados pelas proposições da arte/educação e da Abordagem Triangular do ensino da Arte, promovendo reflexões acerca das possibilidades de mediação cultural e social em diferentes espaços educativos para todas as pessoas. Já no início do século XXI, o estreito diálogo entre a escola, o museu e as políticas de inclusão culminaram em ações na perspectiva da educação inclusiva, com vistas a atender aos diferentes públicos e, dentre eles, alunos surdos, estabelecendo novos fluxos e proposições de mediação cultural e ensino da Arte. Diante disso, a presente pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar como se configuram as interconexões na relação entre a escola e o museu de Arte, tendo como foco a educação bilíngue de surdos. As discussões apresentadas encontraram subsídios nos referenciais teóricos apresentados por Barbosa (2008; 2009; 2012; 2012b; 2015), Bourdieu (2007), Bredariolli (2008), Coutinho (2008; 2009; 2013), D´Horta (1995), Falcão (2009), Ferraz e Fusari (2009; 2010), Jannuzzi (2006), Huerta (2010); Lopes (1991), Marandino (2009), Mazzota (2011), Migliaccio (2000), Ott (1989), Richter (2008), Rizzi (2008), Rocha (2007; 2008; 2014), Sarraf (2013), Saviani (2005; 2007), Soares (1999), Silva (2011), Sofiato (2011) Souza (2007) e Tojal (2007; 2014). A pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, tem por base a análise bibliográfica, além de pesquisa documental e empírica. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas em escolas bilíngues para surdos e Museu de Arte na cidade de São Paulo. Dentre as contribuições para a área, destacamos a compreensão das ressignificações no ensino da Arte na educação de surdos ao longo dos séculos, considerando que na perspectiva inclusiva novas interconexões educativas e culturais vêm sendo ampliadas, favorecendo a acessibilidade cultural e uma aprendizagem em Arte mais significativa a todos. / The Art education for deaf students in Brazil dates back to the Imperial period, through the Imperial Instituto de Surdos-Mudos, in Rio de Janeiro. At the time, the discipline of Art, then named Drawing was incorporated into the curriculum, contributing to the education of deaf students. Also present in the elementary and high schools and Arts and Crafts liceus, teaching drawing and art for deaf followed the trend of education of the XIX, XX and XXI centuries. In the past two decades, following the country\'s democratization process, formal and non formal education teachers increased the process of discussion of the art teaching, sustained by propositions and the Abordagem Triangular do ensino da Arte, promoting reflections about the possibilities of cultural and social mediation in different educational spaces for all people. In the early XXI century, the close dialogue among the school, the museum and social inclusion policies culminated in actions from the perspective of inclusive education, in order to cater to different audiences and, among them, deaf students, establishing new flows and propositions mediation of cultural and art education. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate how to configure the interconnections in the relationship between the school and the Art Museum, focusing on bilingual education of the deaf students. The discussions presented were based on the theoretical frameworks presented by Barbosa (2008; 2009; 2012; 2012b; 2015), Bourdieu (2007), Bredariolli (2008), Coutinho (2008; 2009; 2013), D\'Horta (1995), Hawk (2009), Ferraz and Fusari (2009; 2010), Jannuzzi (2006), Huerta (2010); Lopes (1991), Marandino (2009), Mazzota (2011), Migliaccio (2000), Ott (1989), Richter (2008), Rizzi (2008), Rocha (2007; 2008; 2014), Sarraf (2013), Saviani (2005; 2007), Smith (1999), Smith (2011), Sofiato (2011) Souza (2007) Tojal (2007; 2014). The qualitative research is based on the literature review, as well as documentary and empirical research. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in bilingual schools for the deaf and Art Museum in the city of São Paulo. Among the contributions to the area, we highlight the understanding of new meanings in the art of teaching in the education of deaf over the centuries, considering the inclusive perspective, new educational and cultural interconnections being expanded, favoring cultural accessibility and art learning more meaningful.