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Citizenship, Politics, Difference: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Signed Language Communities
Cooper, C. A., Rashid, K. K. (2015).Citizenship, Politics, Difference: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Signed Language Communities. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. 258 pages. Hardback. $80. 978-1-563688-634-4. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 29, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Multisensory Interference in Early Deaf Adults
AbstractMultisensory interactions in deaf cognition are largely unexplored. Unisensory studies suggest that behavioral/neural changes may be more prominent for visual compared to tactile processing in early deaf adults. Here we test whether such an asymmetry results in increased saliency of vision over touch during visuo-tactile interactions. About 23 early deaf and 25 hearing adults performed two consecutive visuo-tactile spatial interference tasks. Participants responded either to the elevation of the tactile target while ignoring a concurrent visual distractor at central or peripheral locations (respond to touch/ignore ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 22, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Achievement, Language, and Technology Use Among College-Bound Deaf Learners
This study, involving data from 980 college-bound high school students with hearing loss, examined relations between academic achievement, communication variables (audiological, language), and use of assistive technologies (e.g., cochlear implants [CIs], FM systems) and other support services (e.g., interpreting, real-time text) in the classroom. Spoken language skills were positively related to achievement in some domains, while better sign language skills were related to poorer achievement in others. Among these college-bound students, use of CIs and academic support services in high school accounted for little variabili...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 22, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Special Section on Multimodal Multilingual Development of DHH Learners
AbstractThis issue begins the inclusion of a series of articles on multimodal, multilingual communication development. This special section is intended to run for two or three issues, with two or three contributions in each issue. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 22, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Cued Speech Transliteration: Effects of Accuracy and Lag Time on Message Intelligibility
In this study, factors affecting intelligibility (reception by deaf consumers) of those messages is explored. Results for eight highly skilled receivers of CS showed that (a) overall intelligibility (72%) was higher than average accuracy (61%), (b) accuracy had a large positive effect on intelligibility, accounting for 26% of the variance, and (c) the likelihood that an utterance reached 70% intelligibility as a function of accuracy was sigmoidal, decreasing sharply for accuracy values below 65%. While no direct effect of lag time on intelligibility could be detected, intelligibility was most likely to exceed 70% for utter...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 9, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Mothers of Deaf Children in the 21st Century. Dynamic Positioning Between the Medical and Cultural –Linguistic Discourses
This study investigated hearing mother's engagement with the educational options for their child from a dynamic, poststructural perspective. Three Flemish mothers were interviewed in-depth at the child's ages of 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months. The data were analyzed within a theoretical model that describes the positioning process of the mothers. This method yielded alternative explanations for former findings concerning mothers’ decision-making processes, especially the difficulty of learning sign language as a second language in an effort to provide a bilingual–b icultural education, and highlighted the importance of ha...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 9, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Warning: Be Prepared to Assess Deaf Clients
Margery S. Miller, Tania N. Thomas-Presswood, Kurt Metz, Jennifer Lukomski. (2015).Psychological and Psychoeducational Assessment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Adolescents. Washington, DC: Gallaudet Press. 217 pages. Hardcover. $65.00. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 9, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

“Here in Nepal There are No Old Deaf People”: Describing Deafness in a Nepali Context
Review of: Hoffmann-DillowayE. (2016).Signing and belonging in Nepal. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press. Hardback or e-book. 135 pages. $60.00. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 9, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Mothers of Deaf Children in the 21 st Century. Dynamic Positioning Between the Medical and Cultural –Linguistic Discourses
This study investigated hearing mother's engagement with the educational options for their child from a dynamic, poststructural perspective. Three Flemish mothers were interviewed in-depth at the child's ages of 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months. The data were analyzed within a theoretical model that describes the positioning process of the mothers. This method yielded alternative explanations for former findings concerning mothers’ decision-making processes, especially the difficulty of learning sign language as a second language in an effort to provide a bilingual–b icultural education, and highlighted the importance of ha...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 9, 2017 Category: Audiology Source Type: research