Speech-Language Clinicians Working with Deaf Children: A Qualitative Study in Context
This study explored the experiences of SLCs with students who are DHH in three different types of educational settings. Fourteen SLCs were interviewed and discussed a case study. Responses were transcribed, data coded, and emergent themes identified. Analysis was verified through triangulation of data and trustworthiness strategies. Results indicated that the skill sets of SLCs working with children who were DHH were dependent on contextual factors, such as educational placement and communication mode used, and that development of these skills requires direct experience, collaboration, and structural supports. Institutions...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 31, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Shifting Dialog and Culture
CawthonS W and GarberoglioC L (2017).Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture: Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. 234 pages $70.00 (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 29, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

The Understanding of Communicative Intentions in Children with Severe-to-Profound Hearing Loss
AbstractThe ability to distinguish lies from sincere false statements requires understanding a speaker ’s communicative intentions and is argued to develop through linguistic interaction. We tested whether this ability was delayed in 26 children with severe-to-profound hearing loss who, based on vocabulary size, were thought to have relatively limited access to linguistic exchanges compared to typi cally hearing peers (n = 93). Children were presented with toy bears who either lied or made a false statement sincerely. Despite identifying speakers ’ knowledge/ignorance, deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) children were delaye...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 18, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Social Abilities and Visual-Spatial Perspective-Taking Skill: Deaf Signers and Hearing Nonsigners
AbstractSocial abilities relate to performance on visual-spatial perspective-taking (VSPT) tasks for hearing nonsigners but may relate differently to VSPT abilities for deaf signers because of their distinct linguistic and social experiences. This research investigated whether deaf adults approach VSPT tasks nonsocially (as previously suggested for deaf children) or socially (as seen for hearing adults). Adult hearing nonsigners (n = 45) and deaf signers (n = 44) performed a nonlinguistic VSPT task, mental rotation and spatial orientation tasks, and completed a questionnaire measuring social abilities and degree of socialn...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 18, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Assessing the Comprehension of Spatial Perspectives in ASL Classifier Constructions
AbstractIn ASL spatial classifier expressions, the location of the hands in signing space depicts the relative position of described objects. When objects are physically present, the arrangement of the hands maps to the observed position of objects in the world (Shared Space). For non-present objects, interlocutors must perform a mental transformation to take the signer ’s perspective (“Signer Space”). The ASL Spatial Perspective Comprehension Test (ASPCT) was developed to assess the comprehension of locative expressions produced in both Shared and Signer Space, viewed from both canonical Face-to-face and 90° offset...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 11, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Parental Conceptualizations of Autism and Deafness in British Deaf Children
AbstractThe co-occurrence of childhood deafness and autism raises complex challenges for diagnosis and family support. In this article, we explore with hearing and Deaf parents their observations of the interaction between deafness and autism and identify how the intersections of deafness and autism are conceptualized in everyday life. Eight parents participated (two of whom were Deaf BSL users) in semi-structured interviews in either BSL or spoken English. Data analysis was underpinned by a phenomenological approach in the hermeneutic tradition. Findings are discussed in terms of parents ’ perceptions of the relevance o...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 6, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Cued Speech Enhances Speech-in-Noise Perception
AbstractSpeech perception in noise remains challenging for Deaf/Hard of Hearing people (D/HH), even fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implants. The perception of sentences in noise by 20 implanted or aided D/HH subjects mastering Cued Speech (CS), a system of hand gestures complementing lip movements, was compared with the perception of 15 typically hearing (TH) controls in three conditions: audio only, audiovisual, and audiovisual + CS. Similar audiovisual scores were obtained for signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) 11 dB higher in D/HH participants compared with TH ones. Adding CS information enabled D/HH participants to re...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - February 27, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Deaf-Heart in the Interpreting Field
Review of: HolcombT K SmithD H (Eds.) (2018).Deaf Eyes on Interpreting. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. Hardcover. 318 pages. $80.00 (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - February 15, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Narrative Production in Arabic-speaking Adolescents with and without Hearing Loss
AbstractThe present study investigated oral personal narratives elicited from Arabic speaking adolescents with and without hearing loss. Analyses focused on macrostructure, microstructure, and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). For macrostructure, narratives were examined for structural components (abstract, orientation, complication, evaluation, resolution, and coda) and narrative patterns: classic (a high point followed by a resolution), high point ending, chronological, and leap frogging (jumps from one event to another). Microstructure included morpho-syntactic errors and complex sentences. MSA features were lexis and synta...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - January 21, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Friendship and Emotion Control in Pre-Adolescents With or Without Hearing Loss
We examined the extent to which emotion control was related to the quality of friendships in pre-adolescents with and without hearing loss. We tested 350 pre-adolescents (75 deaf/hard of hearing in mainstream education (DHHm), 48 deaf/hard of hearing in special education (DHHs), and 227 hearing) through self-report. Outcomes confirmed a positive association between emotion control and positive friendships for all groups, with one notable exception: more approach strategies for emotion regulation were associated with more negative friendship features in the DHHs group. In addition, the DHHm group demonstrated high levels of...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - May 4, 2018 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Early Communication Development of Children with Auditory Brainstem Implants
AbstractThe auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is an auditory sensory device that is surgically placed on the cochlear nucleus of the brainstem for individuals who are deaf but unable to benefit from a cochlear implant (CI) due to anatomical abnormalities of the cochlea and/or eighth nerve, specific disease processes, or temporal bone fractures. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has authorized a Phase I clinical trial to determine safety and feasibility of the ABI in up to 10 eligible young children who are deaf and either derived no benefit from the CI or were anatomically unable to receive a CI. In thi...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 26, 2018 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Morphology Instruction in the Science Classroom for Students Who Are Deaf: A Multiple Probe Across Content Analysis
AbstractDeaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students have exhibited a morphological knowledge delay that begins in preschool and persists through college. Morphological knowledge is critical to vocabulary understanding and text comprehension in the science classroom. We investigated the effects of morphological instruction, commonly referred to as Word Detectives, on the morphological knowledge of college-age DHH students in a science course. We implemented a multiple probe across behaviors single-case experimental design study with nine student participants. The student participants attended the National Technical Institute fo...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 17, 2018 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Parent Couples ’ Coping Resources and Involvement in their Children’s Intervention Program
AbstractParental involvement is vital to the implementation of intervention programs for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. The current study examined the dyadic relationships between mothers ’ and fathers’ coping resources and their involvement in their child’s intervention program. In addition, the moderating roles of parent’s gender and family religiosity on the associations between coping resources and involvement were examined. Seventy Jewish couples of parents of DHH childr en, representing various levels of religiosity, completed questionnaires regarding involvement in their child’s intervention prog...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 17, 2018 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Usability of American Sign Language Videos for Presenting Mathematics Assessment Content
This study differed from earlier studies by ob liging the participants to rely on the ASL videos to answer the items. While participants preferred the human version over the avatar version (apparently due largely to the better expressiveness and fluency of the human), there was no discernible relationship between mathematics performance and sign ed version. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 12, 2018 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

It Takes Two to Read: Interactive Reading with Young Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
AbstractInteractive storybook reading is an important activity to enhance the emergent literacy skills of young deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. Parents have a crucial role to play in promoting their children ’s literacy development. However, parents often do not read in an interactive way; therefore guidance is recommended in applying these interactive reading strategies. In the present study we examined how parent reading behavior was affected by implementing an interactive reading training program f or parents of young DHH children. Parents of 18 DHH toddlers in the Netherlands participated in a series of grou...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 4, 2018 Category: Audiology Source Type: research