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Interpreting in the Zone
JackHoza (2016).Interpreting in the Zone: How the Conscious and Unconscious Function in Interpreting. Washington, DC: Gallaudet Press. Hardback. $70. ISBN 978-1-56368-666-5. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 8, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

School-aged Children with Mild Bilateral and Unilateral Hearing Loss: Parents ’ Reflections on Services, Experiences, and Outcomes
The objectives were to gain insights into parents ’ experiences with services during the early period of identification until early school years, as well as their perceptions of the consequences of hearing loss on their child’s overall development. A qualitative research design informed by Interpretive Description was employed. Individual semi- structured interviews were conducted with 12 parents of children identified with mild hearing loss. Transcripts were analyzed using a constant comparative method. Four themes emerged from the data: early experiences with services and hearing technology, effects of hearing loss o...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - October 31, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Exploring Cascading Effects of Multimodal Communication Skills in Infants With Hearing Loss
AbstractInfants and toddlers with hearing loss (HL) are at risk for developing communicative delays that can have a substantial lasting effect. Understanding child characteristics that may be targeted in early intervention is essential to maximizing communicative outcomes in children with HL. Among the most malleable predictors of communication skills include maternal responsivity, gestures, and vocalizations. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among maternal responsivity, prelinguistic communication skills and expressive vocabulary in children with HL. Based upon the results we propose a theoretical...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - October 13, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Altering Practices to Include Bimodal-bilingual (ASL-Spoken English) Programming at a Small School for the Deaf in Canada
AbstractBimodal-bilingual programs are emerging as one way to meet broader needs and provide expanded language, educational and social-emotional opportunities for students who are deaf and hard of hearing (Marschark, M., Tang, G.& Knoors, H. (Eds). (2014).Bilingualism and bilingual Deaf education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; Paludneviciene& Harris, R. (2011). Impact of cochlear implants on the deaf community. In Paludneviciene, R.& Leigh, I. (Eds.),Cochlear implants evolving perspectives (pp. 3 –19). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press). However, there is limited research on students’ spok...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - October 13, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Literacy Outcomes in Deaf Students with Cochlear Implants: Current State of the Knowledge
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to examine the available peer-reviewed research regarding literacy achievement in deaf children with cochlear implants. A related goal is to identify gaps in the empirical literature and suggest directions for future research. Included in this review are studies that exclusively report reading and writing outcomes for groups of students. A total of 21 studies were identified, representing those published over approximately a 20-year time period (1997 –2016) and collectively reporting the literacy outcomes for over 1,000 cochlear implant users. Overall findings of the studies of readin...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - October 5, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Early Reading Development in Chinese-speaking Children with Hearing Loss
This study aims to explore early reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking children with hearing loss (HL) by examining character recognition and linguistic comprehension. Twenty-five children with HL received three measures relevant to character reading: phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA), and character recognition; two linguistic-comprehension measures: receptive vocabulary knowledge and listening comprehension; and one reading comprehension measure. Three demographic variables pertinent to children with HL were also taken into account. The results showed that the degree of HL was significantly rel...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 28, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Emerging Research
Nicodemus.   B,  Cagle,  K (2015).Signed Language Interpretation and Translation Research: Selected Papers from the First International Symposium. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. 250 pages. $70.00 (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 28, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Auditory Verbal Therapy: For young children with hearing loss and their families...by Estabrooks et al.
EstabrooksWMacIver-LuxKRhoadesE A (2016).Auditory-Verbal Therapy For Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them (1st edition). San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing. Hardback. 602 pages. $79.95. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 27, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Focus and construal in American Sign Language
RankinM (2016). Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. Hardback. 135 pages. $80.00. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 21, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Leadership Succession: Future-proofing Pipelines
AbstractThe challenges in deaf education illustrate the requirement and importance of leadership in this specialized field. The significant and impending talent depletion unfolding as baby-boomers retire, positions leadership succession planning as a strategic issue. This mixed methods study is the first of its kind in New Zealand. The aim is to understand leadership demographics and assumptions to determine the need for strategic succession planning to identify and address leaky pipelines. The findings from 82% of the deaf education workforce through a questionnaire and interviews with seven senior leaders reveal that sen...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 12, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Face Recognition is Shaped by the Use of Sign Language
AbstractPrevious research has suggested that early deaf signers differ in face processing. Which aspects of face processing are changed and the role that sign language may have played in that change are however unclear. Here, we compared face categorization (human/non-human) and human face recognition performance in early profoundly deaf signers, hearing signers, and hearing non-signers. In the face categorization task, the three groups performed similarly in term of both response time and accuracy. However, in the face recognition task, signers (both deaf and hearing) were slower than hearing non-signers to accurately rec...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 8, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Language and Psychosocial Functioning among Deaf Learners with and without Cochlear Implants
AbstractVarious studies have examined psychosocial functioning and language abilities among deaf children with and without cochlear implants (CIs). Few, however, have explored how relations among those abilities might change with age and setting. Most relevant studies also have failed to consider that psychosocial functioning among both CI users and nonusers might be influenced by having language abilities in both signed and spoken language. The present investigation explored how these variables might influence each other, including the possibility that deaf individuals ’ psychosocial functioning might be influenced diff...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 8, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Longitudinal Associations Between Bullying and Emotions in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adolescents
AbstractIn hearing adolescents, emotions play important roles in the development of bullying and victimization. Yet, it is unclear whether this also applies to adolescents who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). The present study examines the longitudinal associations of anger, fear, guilt, and shame with bullying/victimization in DHH adolescents. Overall, 80 DHH and 227 hearing adolescents (Mage = 11.7; 103 males) completed self-reports on two occasions with a 9-month interval. Outcomes show that DHH adolescents reported fewer bullying behaviors, but more victimization compared to hearing adolescents. Longitudinal relation...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 8, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Computerized Sign Language-Based Literacy Training for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
AbstractStrengthening the connections between sign language and written language may improve reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) signing children. The main aim of the present study was to investigate whether computerized sign language-based literacy training improves reading skills in DHH signing children who are learning to read. Further, longitudinal associations between sign language skills and developing reading skills were investigated. Participants were recruited from Swedish state special schools for DHH children, where pupils are taught in both sign language and spoken language. Reading skills were ass...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 30, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research