This study was an investigation of the impact of home language and maternal education on adult-infant interactions involving children with hearing loss (CWHL). Participants were 51 monolingual English and bilingual Spanish/English families from the Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children parent-infant program in San Antonio, Texas.
Independent and combined effects of home language and maternal education on adult-infant interaction were investigated. Data collection was done with Language ENvironmental Analysis (LENA) Digital Language Processors (DLP). LENA measures of Adult Word Counts (AWC) and Conversational Turns Counts (CTC) were analyzed based on 12-hour recordings and served as dependent variables.
Statistical testing obtained no significant differences between home languages on AWC and CTC. Significant difference was found between levels of maternal education on adult-infant interaction measures. This paper will discuss findings of the study, address results in context to parent-infant intervention for monolingual and bilingual families of CWHL, and limitations of the investigation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-05032011-134155 |
| Date | 03 May 2011 |
| Creators | Lew, Valerie Nicole |
| Contributors | Helen M Morrison, No search engine access |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
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| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05032011-134155/ |
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