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Marschark, Marc; Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth; Adams, Jennifer; Sapere, Patricia – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2011
This paper examines research findings concerning the loci of the pervasive academic underachievement among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children and issues associated with interventions and instructional methods that could help to reduce or eliminate it. Investigators have hypothesised that at least 50% of the variability in DHH students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Underachievement, Deafness, Teaching Methods
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Hadjikakou, Kika; Petridou, Lenia; Stylianou, Chryso – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2008
This paper reports the results of a study which has been carried out for the first time in Cyprus, with the aim of exploring the views of deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) children (who attend secondary general schools, and use an auditory/oral approach), as well as the perceptions of their parents, teachers and head teachers on their academic and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Academic Standards, Foreign Countries, Oral Communication Method
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Ohna, Stein Erik – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2005
The aim of this paper is to discuss processes of inclusion and exclusion in compulsory classrooms where both Norwegian and Norwegian Sign Language (NSL) are used. The Norwegian Education Act 1998, section 2?6, gives deaf pupils who have acquired sign language as their first language 'the right to tuition in the use of sign language and through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, Sign Language, Deafness