Hemispheric specialization for language processing is demonstrated as a left hemispheric function for most normal hearing right-handed subjects. Hearing impaired subjects, however, do not demonstrate a predictable hemispheric specialization for language processing. This research used a matched letter pair stimulus presented tachistoscopically to four male and four female right-handed, profoundly deaf children who use cued speech to communicate. Analysis of the test data shows a small significant trend towards left hemispheric specialization for language processing. A case-by-case review reveals that four subjects demonstrated left hemispheric specialization for language processing, two subjects demonstrated right hemispheric superiority for language processing, and two subjects did not demonstrate superiority for language processing in either hemisphere. A larger sample size would be required to determine if the cued speech subjects develop hemispheric specialization the way normal hearing subjects do or whether they develop the inconsistent pattern of specialization of other deaf subjects. / M. S.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 D34 / Master of Arts / Communication Studies

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The deaf community face similar access barriers to health care services and information as do other linguistic minority groups. Amongst others, this includes limited access to English communication, misunderstanding of medical terminology, irregular contact with health care professionals of the same language and cultural background and the need to overcome the challenges experienced by using others as interpreters in a health care setting. Barriers to the written and spoken word limit access to health care information as deaf people cannot overhear conversations, have limited access to mass media and present with low literacy rates. The South African Constitution stipulates that every citizen has an equal right to health care services and should not be unfairly discriminated against, on the basis of language. Unfortunately, despite what is written in the Constitution, the reality is that many South Africans are denied equal access or receive compromised access to health care services because of language barriers. The lack of access to interpreters at health care facilities across South Africa inhibits patients from expressing themselves correctly and limits the providers’ professional ability to make a correct diagnosis and provide relevant information. The current study explores the barriers and facilitators to accessing health care services and health care information for people who are deaf in a relatively well-resourced setting. A sample of deaf participants from the National Institute for the Deaf in Worcester were interviewed to gain an understanding of problems experienced with accessing health care services and health care information. Participants reported communication and socio-economic factors as barriers to accessing health care services. The main barrier to accessing health care information was considered to be the inaccessibility of the mass media. Recommendations were made by participants on ways to improve access to health care services and health care information for the deaf population of South Africa. Keywords: Health care acces, Health care information, Deaf, Worcester, Barriers and facilitators to health care services. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die dowe gemeenskap ervaar soortgelyke struikelblokke as ander linguistiese minderheidsgroepe met toegang tot gesondheidsdienste en inligting. Dit sluit onder andere in beperkte toegang tot Engelse kommunikasie, wanbegrip van mediese terminologie, ongereelde kontak met mediese dienspraktisyne van dieselfde taal en kulturele agtergrond, en die uitdaging wat oorkom moet word om ander mense te gebruik as tussenganger en tolk in ’n mediese situasie. Hindernisse met geskrewe- en spreektaal beperk die toegang tot gesondheidsinligting. Dowe mense kan nie na gesprekke luister nie, het beperkte toegang tot massamedia en vertoon oor die algemeen 'n laer geletterdheidsprofiel. Die Suid Afrikaanse Grondwet stipuleer dat elke burger ’n gelyke reg tot gesondheidsdienste het en verbied onregverdige diskriminasie op grond van taal. Ten spyte van die Grondwet is die realiteit dat baie Suid Afrikaners nie gelyke toegang het nie en ’n laer vlak van mediese dienslewering ervaar as gevolg van taalprobleme. Die ontoereikende beskikbaarheid van tolke by gesondheidsfasiliteite reg oor Suid Afrika beperk die vermoë van pasiënte om hulself behoorlik uit te druk. Dit beperk daarom ook die mediese praktisyn se vermoë om ’n korrekte diagnose te maak en relevante inligting rakende die diagnose aan die pasiënt oor te dra. In die huidige studie is die struikelblokke en fasiliteerders vir toegang tot gesondheidsdienste en inligting ondersoek vir dowe mense in ’n relatief goed toegeruste omgewing. ’n Steekproef van dowe deelnemers is by die Nasionale Instituut vir Dowes in Worcester geselekteer. Deur middel van onderhoude is die probleme wat ondervind word met toegang tot gesondheidsdienste en gesondheidsinformasie geïdentifiseer. Deelnemers het kommunikasie en sosio-ekonomiese faktore as struikelblokke tot die toegang van gesondheidsdienste geïdentifiseer. Die grootste struikelblok met toegang tot mediese inligting was die beperkte toegang tot massamedia. Voorstelle is deur die deelnemers gemaak vir die verbetering van die toeganklikheid tot mediese dienslewering en gesondheidsinligting vir die dowe populasie in Suid Afrika.

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

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-04T11:46:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Miriam Maia de Araújo Pereira.pdf: 6552358 bytes, checksum: bed67c4f67812e0a3b0a725ccffb80d0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-04T11:46:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Miriam Maia de Araújo Pereira.pdf: 6552358 bytes, checksum: bed67c4f67812e0a3b0a725ccffb80d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research aims to investigate the relationship between writing in Portuguese language and the deaf subject inserted in formal education. As well as trying to understand how this relationship occurs in the writing process of those who have completed graduation and those who are supposed to be proficient in reading and have the ability to write. The specific objectives are: to analyze the written productions of the deaf subjects; to investigate the influence of Libras in the written production, in Portuguese, of the deaf; to verify how the schooling of the deaf collaborated to acquire their writing in Portuguese. The theoretical foundation is based in approaches of inclusion policies (BRAZIL, 1988/2015), in Bilingualism (GOLDFELD, 1997; SACKS, 1998; QUADROS, 2012; BOTELHO, 2013 and SKLIAR, 2001), in a socio-historical (VYGOTSKY, 2000) and dialogic perspective (BAKHTIN, 2010). It is a case study (LÜDKE AND ANDRE, 2015) in a qualitative methodology (CHIZZOTTI, 2014), with interpretative orientation (MOITA-LOPES, 1994). The participants are two deaf graduates, living in the city of Macapá, in the State of Amapá. Data generation was done through questionnaire (GIL, 2008), textual production (GERALDI, 2003), reading experiences (ZANOTTO, 1995), the reflective journal (SOARES, 2006) and interview (GIL, 2008). The data revealed that the relationship of these deaf subjects to writing in Portuguese is complex, since even after years of schooling they cannot express themselves efficiently through writing. It demonstrates that the educational process in which they were inserted disregarded their linguistic specificities, depriving them of a teaching based on a bilingual proposal, in which the Libras should be the way of access to the knowledge in Portuguese language, thus enabling them to be active and responsive subjects in relation to their learning / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar como ocorre a relação entre o sujeito surdo, inserido na educação formal e a escrita em língua portuguesa, tentando compreender como se dá essa relação no processo de escrita desses surdos que já concluíram a graduação e que se pressupõe que sejam proficientes em leitura e possuem o domínio da produção escrita. Tem como objetivos específicos: analisar as produções escritas dos sujeitos surdos; investigar a influência da Libras na produção escrita, em português, dos surdos e verificar como a escolarização dos surdos colaborou para a aquisição de sua escrita em português. A fundamentação teórica está ancorada em abordagens de políticas de inclusão (BRASIL,1988/2015), no Bilinguismo (GOLDFELD,1997; SACKS,1998; QUADROS, 2012, BOTELHO,2013; SKLIAR, 2001), em uma perspectiva sócio-histórica (VYGOTSKY,2000) e em uma perspectiva dialógica (BAKHTIN, 2010). É um estudo de caso (LÜDKE E ANDRÉ, 2015), com metodologia qualitativa (CHIZZOTTI, 2014), com orientação interpretativista (MOITA-LOPES, 1994). Os participantes são dois surdos graduados, residentes na cidade Macapá, no Estado do Amapá. A geração de dados ocorreu através do questionário (GIL, 2008), da produção textual (GERALDI, 2003), das vivências de leitura (ZANOTTO, 1995), do diário reflexivo (SOARES, 2006) e da entrevista (GIL, 2008). Os dados revelaram que a relação desses surdos com a escrita em português é complexa, uma vez que mesmo após anos de escolarização não conseguem se expressar de forma eficiente através da escrita, demonstrando que o processo educacional no qual eles estiveram inseridos, desconsiderou suas especificidades linguísticas, negando-lhes um ensino pautado em uma proposta baseada no bilinguismo, em que a Libras deve ser a via de acesso aos conhecimentos em língua portuguesa, possibilitando assim, que os mesmos possam se constituir em sujeitos ativos e responsivos em relação ao seu aprendizado

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-10-06T12:48:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Cibele Toledo Lucena.pdf: 34594187 bytes, checksum: bcfbae13b2ef9398ff1b1f36f944b412 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-06T12:48:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cibele Toledo Lucena.pdf: 34594187 bytes, checksum: bcfbae13b2ef9398ff1b1f36f944b412 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-13 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The present work investigates the poetic, ethic and (self-) educational experience accomplished by the group Corposinalizante, formed by deaf and hearing people, now responsible for Slam do Corpo, a rhyme battle that happens with an entanglement between the Portuguese language and the Brazilian Sign Language, two forms of language. Such effort to produce a neighborhood between these two worlds takes us through a path which escapes from the ideas of “deficiency” or “difference” offered by a normative and hegemonic point of view and it creates the possibility to think of the occurrence of distinct processes of differentiation. Likewise, it allows us to occupy and vacate certain words lurking around this experience, such as “accessibility” and “inclusion”, making us create different words, in connection with the vibrations of life. When the deaf poet and the hearing poet meet in the mixed poetic performances that take place in such Slam, the problem of translation operates in an autonomous and creative form, allowing tongues to kiss, to tension and to stretch one another. This is how Tongue Kiss drags us outside the prevalent logic that categorizes the bodies and exterminates its different knowledges and potencies, affirming the insubordinate and dangerous strength of alliances / Este trabalho procura investigar a experiência poética, ética e (auto)educativa realizada pelo grupo Corposinalizante, formado por surdos e ouvintes, e hoje responsável pelo Slam do Corpo, uma batalha de poesias que acontece na imbricação entre a língua portuguesa e a língua brasileira de sinais, dois modos de língua e linguagem. Este empenho em produzir uma vizinhança entre os dois mundos nos leva por um caminho que escapa às ideias de “deficiência” e “diferença” pautadas por um olhar normativo e hegemônico, tornando possível pensar o acontecimento de distintos processos de diferenciação. Na mesma direção, nos permite ocupar e desocupar certas palavras que nos espreitam nesta experiência, como “acessibilidade” e “inclusão”, levando-nos a criar outras, em conexão com as vibrações da vida. Quando o poeta surdo e o poeta ouvinte se encontram, nas performances poéticas mestiças realizadas neste Slam, o problema da tradução se opera de forma autônoma e criativa, possibilitando que as línguas se beijem, se tensionem e se alarguem. É assim que o Beijo de Línguas nos arrasta para fora da lógica vigente, que categoriza os corpos e extermina suas potências e saberes, afirmando a força insubordinada e perigosa das alianças

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-11-14T13:39:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Lesle Maciel.pdf: 2105457 bytes, checksum: 569ddfc3d56e3def02f0761a9918655d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-14T13:39:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lesle Maciel.pdf: 2105457 bytes, checksum: 569ddfc3d56e3def02f0761a9918655d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-06 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The deaf who has not developed any oral and / or signal language has not had access to assistance that introduces him to the sound world. The objective of this research is to develop a protocol of psychological assistance for the deep deaf subject who wishes to do the Cochlear Implantation procedure. Three records attended at a private hospital, from 2006 to 2009, were analyzed. A multiprofessional team (physicians, speech therapists and psychologist) was performed the medical services. Two patients were treated by the whole team and the third one was attended according to the standard protocol, being assisted by the physician and speech therapist. The criteria for selecting the medical records were: be diagnosed with severe or profound bilateral hearing loss neurosensory, prelingual with medical and phonoaudiological indication for Cochlear Implant procedures. The project was submitted and approved by the Research Ethics Committee, under number CAAE 68162017.0.0000.5482. The choice of data analysis was the Content Analysis. The results of psychological counseling in these profound pre-lingual deaf users did not meet the speech therapist criterion, but when listening to certain noises that were throughout the services symbolized and incorporated into the daily routine of their lives, dismissed of caregivers and / or companions. The recognition and symbolization of noise in sounds with meanings indicate the magnification of the subjectivity of these subjects. These results indicate guidelines for the creation of a psychological protocol that allows gains in the life quality of the subject who submits to the Cochlear Implant process, as well as autonomy and decrease in the dependence of third parties or caregivers / O surdo profundo, que não desenvolveu nenhuma linguagem oral e/ou de sinais, não tem tido acesso a assistência que o introduza no mundo sonoro. O objetivo dessa pesquisa é desenvolver um protocolo de assistência psicológica para o sujeito surdo pré lingual profundo que deseja fazer o procedimento do Implante Coclear. Foram analisados três prontuários de pessoas atendidas em hospital particular, no período de 2006 a 2009. Os atendimentos foram realizados por uma equipe multiprofissional (médicos, fonoaudiólogos e psicólogo). Em dois prontuários, os usuários foram atendidos pela equipe toda e o terceiro teve atendimento segundo o protocolo padrão sendo assistido pelo médico e fonoaudiólogo. Os critérios de seleção dos prontuários foram ser pessoa com diagnostico de perda neurossensorial severa e ou profunda bilateral, pré-linguais com indicação médica e fonoaudiológica para os procedimentos do Implante Coclear. O projeto foi submetido e aprovado pela Comissão de Ética em Pesquisa, sob número CAAE 68162017.0.0000.5482. A escolha de análise dos dados foi a Análise de Conteúdo. Os resultados da assistência psicológica nesses usuários surdos profundos pré-linguais não atenderam ao critério fonoaudiólogo, mas ao escutar certos ruídos que foram ao longo dos atendimentos simbolizados e incorporados no cotidiano de suas vidas, possibilitou a dispensa de cuidadores e ou acompanhantes. O reconhecimento e simbolização dos ruídos em sons com significados indicam a ampliação da subjetividade desses sujeitos. Estes resultados indicam diretrizes para a criação de protocolo psicológico que possibilita ganhos na qualidade de vida do sujeito que se submete ao processo de Implante Coclear, além de autonomia e diminuição da dependência de terceiros ou cuidadores

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-02-16T19:31:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Fachinelli Vieira.pdf: 2258256 bytes, checksum: cc0dfba5410d79011aa66e7bab910602 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-16T19:31:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Fachinelli Vieira.pdf: 2258256 bytes, checksum: cc0dfba5410d79011aa66e7bab910602 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-06 / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / Introduction: Reading is an important practice to communicate and to understand the world around us, thus helping individuals to act socially actively and critically. Some researches indicate that deaf subjects have significant difficulties in reading comprehension. Objective: To assess reading comprehension in deaf professionals from a higher education institution. Method: Case study: 14 adult subjects, deaf, literate, both male and female, aged between 20.6 and 42.7 years. Procedure: Phase 1: Application of Cloze Test on a journalistic text with approximately 200 words. Each subject was instructed to fill in the blanks (30) with the appropriate words to the content of the text. Phase 2: According to the results obtained by the subjects in Cloze test, they were asked to perform a new linguistic task: reading followed by the preparation of a written summary of the original text.06 subjects accepted to participate in this phase. Criteria for results interpretation: the answers provided in Cloze test were ranked as: correct (identical to the original text), possible (other than the original text, but with appropriate sense), incorrect and no answer. A descriptive data analysis was held through absolute (n) and relative (%) frequencies, in addition to central tendency (mean and median) and dispersion (standard deviation, minimum and maximum) measures. The summarized texts were qualitatively analyzed with the following criteria: time spent, understanding of the essential content, understanding of complementary content, and inclusion of personal opinions. Results: Most of the subjects obtained scores significantly below compared to the maximum total score (60 points) of the Cloze test. Of the 6 phase 2 participants, only one did not included essential information in the summary of the text. Conclusion: the performance in reading comprehension, in deaf subjects enrolled, is hampered by the formal (morphological and syntactic) aspects of the linguistic code demanded by Cloze test; and favored by semantic and pragmatic aspects used to elaborate written summaries / Introdução: A leitura é uma prática importante para a comunicação e compreensão do mundo a nossa volta, contribuindo para que indivíduo atue socialmente de forma ativa e crítica. Pesquisas apontam que sujeitos surdos apresentam dificuldades significativas na compreensão de leitura. OBJETIVO: avaliar a compreensão de leitura em profissionais surdos de uma instituição de ensino superior. Método: Casuística: 14 sujeitos adultos surdos, alfabetizados, de ambos os gêneros, na faixa etária entre 20,6 e 42,7 anos. Procedimento: Fase 1: Aplicação do Teste Cloze a partir de um texto jornalístico com aproximadamente 200 palavras. Cada sujeito foi orientado a preencher as lacunas (30) com palavras que considerasse adequadas ao conteúdo do texto. Fase 2: Diante dos resultados obtidos pelos sujeitos no teste Cloze, eles foram contatados para desempenhar uma nova tarefa linguística: leitura seguida de elaboração de resumo escrito do texto original. 06 sujeitos aceitaram participara dessa fase. Critérios de interpretação dos resultados: as respostas do teste Cloze foram categorizadas em: correta (idêntica ao texto original), possível (diferente do texto original, mas com sentido pertinente), incorreta e em branco. Foi realizada análise descritiva dos dados por meio de frequências absolutas (n) e relativas (%), medidas de tendência central (média e mediana) e dispersão (desvio-padrão, mínimo e máximo). Os resumos foram analisados qualitativamente a partir dos seguintes critérios: tempo despendido, compreensão do conteúdo essencial, compreensão dos conteúdos complementares, inclusão de opiniões pessoais. Resultados: A maioria dos sujeitos obteve pontuação significativamente abaixo do total máximo (60 pontos) no teste Cloze. Dos 6 participantes da fase 2, apenas um não apresentou no resumo as informações essenciais do texto. Conclusão: O desempenho em compreensão de leitura, nos sujeitos surdos estudados, é dificultado pelos aspectos formais do código linguístico (morfológicos e sintáticos) demandados pelo teste Cloze; e favorecido pelos aspectos semânticos e pragmáticos mobilizados para a realização de resumos escritos

Teachers’ responses as well as the children’s types of disabilities have a great impact on how often and in what ways the children will communicate with the teachers. (Lee, 2001; Wu, 2003). Limited research on teacher-student interactions in special education classroom settings raises a series of questions regarding the teachers’ perspectives, teacher training, children’s communication behaviors and their learning of social communication skills. The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of interactions between teachers and young children with developmental disabilities including severe/multiple developmental disabilities (SMDD) during communication interventions and how both were mutually influenced by such interactions. Specifically, the guiding questions were: (a) How did teachers interact with young children with developmental disabilities during interventions? (b) Why did the teachers choose certain types of responses and strategies/techniques during interventions? and (c) What were the outcomes of the communication interventions for young children with developmental disabilities including SMDD? Using naturalistic inquiry as the research method, and drawing on sociocultural theory, this research constructed a case study of teacher-student interactions during communication intervention in one classroom in south Taiwan. Participants included three special educators and four students with developmental disabilities. Data sources included classroom observations, interviews with teachers, and document analysis. Data were analyzed using the constant-comparative method and discourse analysis. The findings revealed that the three teacher participants made efforts to shape the young children’s learning attitudes and behaviors. Yet, how they responded to the individual child was varied in terms of the young children’s disabilities, their capabilities for communication, and their specific challenging behaviors. The communication interventions resulted in some positive outcomes of the children’s social communication skills. However, the teachers’ lack of knowledge and training of implementing assistive technologies limited their ability to carry out effective communication interventions for the child with SMDD. Further, the teachers’ concerns for the children’s utilization of appropriate social communication manners were influenced greatly by their own their professional training and perspectives which might be influenced by Chinese culture and Confusion’s philosophy. These findings have implications for further research, classroom practice, and teacher education. / text

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