Within the field of deaf education, a commonly held belief is that the incidence of acts of aggression will decrease as the hearing impaired child's competence in language increases. To examine this relationship, a longitudinal study using file reviews was conducted with a sample of bilaterally deaf males aged 4 to 14 from a residential school. Frequency counts of aggression and scores on the Reading subtest of the Stanford Achievement Test-Hearing Impaired were examined for the school years beginning in 1986, 1987, 1988 by means of a Time Series Analysis. This analysis showed a significant trend in the direction of establishing a correlation between lower levels of aggression and increases in language competence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-8530 |
| Date | 01 January 1992 |
| Creators | Kuntz, Lisa Anne |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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