MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Deafness and Education International' source. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:34:25 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3047921&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.270 No abstract. (Source: Deafness and Education International) Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3047921 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3047921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3044418&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.253 No Abstract (Source: Deafness and Education International) Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3044418 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3044418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3044419&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.268 Providing children who are deaf with accessible, age-appropriate guidance and support in learning about growing up is of great importance for their healthy sexual development. This quantitative survey study is part of an exploratory research program with the goal of providing empirical data on the growth of sexual understanding in deaf children (the term 'deaf' includes all children with a permanent hearing loss). A short questionnaire was used to explore the views of teachers of the deaf on this subject as well as to provide an insight into the challenges these professionals face in the area of sex education. The study's findings highlight an overall concern over the suitability of current methods and materials often used to teach mainstreamed deaf children about sexuality and relationshi... Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3044419 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3044419 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3022875&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.269 In this study, interviews with instructors of five ASL - English Interpreter Programs (AEIP) and four Deaf Studies Programs (DSP) in Canada identified a number of common themes in particular to the intersection of culture, power, and identity. Within a post-colonial framework differences were found in the discursive practices of the participants as Deaf or non-Deaf individuals. Evidence of systemic audism experienced by the Deaf staff was noted at a number of levels, perhaps due to the existence of a 'Grand Narrative of Hearing' and a process of 'Worlding' based on the ideology of the hearing majority. As a result perhaps some of the Deaf instructors were ascribed or adopted the role of subaltern, where they should have instead experienced substantial social capital. Copyright © 2009 John... Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3022875 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 3022875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2992540&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.267 This study demonstrates that this also obtains for young deaf children still in the early stages of developing spoken language. Data collected from the homes of 13 deaf children (aged from 3 years 3 months to 4 years 4 months at the start of the study) over a two-year period showed hypothesising and experimenting around writing. Spontaneous drawing and writing samples were collected and a method of eliciting data was devised that did not rely on the children knowing vocabulary related to print (e.g. 'word' or 'sentence'). The data revealed that these children had internalised print concepts but this knowledge could easily be overlooked. Implications for educational settings are discussed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Source: Deafness and Education International) Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2992540 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2992540 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2980886&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.266 This study investigated the phonological awareness skills of a group of deaf adolescents and how these skills correlated with decoding skills (single word and non-word reading) and receptive vocabulary.Twenty, congenitally profoundly deaf adolescents with at least average nonverbal cognitive skills were tested on a range of phonological awareness tasks, and a non-word and real-word reading task, and their speech intelligibility was rated. Scores on a receptive vocabulary measure were gathered from existing records. All participants met an inclusion criterion of scoring within one standard deviation of the mean on a non-verbal reasoning task.As a group, compared to the hearing standardisation samples, the participants' single-word reading fell within the normal range; their non-word reading... Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2980886 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2980886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2691310&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.260 No Abstract (Source: Deafness and Education International) Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2691310 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2691310 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2625766&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.262 Television captioning has great potential to provide deaf children with access to the audio track of programmes. However, use of captions may be limited by the lower English literacy skills of the deaf population compared to the general population. Here, we investigate how the rate of caption delivery affects the comprehension of educational programmes by better- and poorer-reading deaf school children. Participants watched three short documentaries, with captions presented at 90, 120, or 180 words per minute (wpm). Across both reading levels, comprehension was uniformly higher at 90 and 120 wpm than at 180 wpm. Independent of caption rate, better readers scored higher overall than poorer readers. These results suggest that the rate of captions in children's television programmes can safel... Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2625766 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2625766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2616617&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.261 This study examined the relationship between speech recognition, working memory and conversational skills in a group of 13 children/adolescents with cochlear implants (CIs) between 11 and 19 years of age. Conversational skills were assessed in a referential communication task where the participants interacted with a hearing peer of the same age and gender. The measures were the number of requests for clarification produced, time used to solve the task and the proportion of the different types of requests for clarification made by the participants with CIs. The results revealed that speech recognition correlated significantly with the general measures of conversational skills (time to solve the task and the total number of requests for clarification used). General working memory was associa... Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2616617 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2616617 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2605798&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.263 No abstract. (Source: Deafness and Education International) Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2605798 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2605798 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2552809&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.259 This study examines whether self-concept scores of deaf students vary according to age at diagnosis of deafness, the degree of deafness and the number of visits students receive from a teacher of the deaf. Thirty-seven deaf students between the ages of 12 and 18 attending inclusive educational settings in Western Australia participated in the study. The Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, Second Edition (Piers-Harris 2) was used as a measure of self-concept. Overall, group mean self-concept scores on the Piers-Harris 2 were within the average range, with some differences between groups in relation to these. There were no significant main effects of age at diagnosis of deafness or the degree of deafness on Piers-Harris 2 domain scale and total self-concept scores. There was also no ... Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2552809 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2552809 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2508054&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.210 No Abstract (Source: Deafness and Education International) Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2508054 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2508054 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2508055&cid=s_38722_161_f&fid=38722&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252Fdei.209 No abstract. (Source: Deafness and Education International) Deafness and Education International journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2508055 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:00:00 +0100 2508055