Deaf students at two institutions of higher education and hearing students taking the same degree programmes completed the Course Experience Questionnaire and a short version of the Approaches to Studying Inventory. The deaf students were just as likely as the hearing students to adopt a meaning orientation to their studies but were more likely to…

The research was motivated by an interest in improving the teaching of deaf children. It is important to identify what has been written about short-term memory and the deaf, and this was achieved through a literature search and review. An extensive survey was conducted to ascertain what knowledge existing teachers of the deaf have about short-term…

This article discusses the development of the Hand in Hand curriculum of the Black Country Pathfinder Networks for Excellence program. The purpose of the project is to create a British Sign Language (BSL) course suitable to delivery in the mainstream curriculum. The first phase focuses primarily on the creation of an outline of the project and a…

This study evaluated school functioning of a sample of children with hearing impairments who were mainstreamed in regular educational settings. Participants comprised 47 children aged 7;2 to 9;3 years with various degrees and types of hearing loss. Teachers evaluated the children using the Hebrew version of the Screening Instrument For Targeting…

March 2004 saw the last in the ESRC-funded REMEDES seminar series. Its focus was research methodologies and problems of method in working within D/deaf studies. Its start point was to question whether there were conditions, characteristics and features of the field that present particular challenges and/or drive particular kinds of methodological…

Maternal scaffolding of pretend play was investigated in ten hearing mother/hearing child (Hh) dyads and ten hearing mother/deaf child (Hd) dyads. Three videotaped samples of play interaction were collected when the children were 28, 29 and 30 months of age. The videotapes were segmented according to four levels of maternal participation (dyadic…