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Deaf Language Specialists: Delivering Language Therapy in Signed Languages
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Hoskin, Joanna; Herman, Ros; Woll, Bencie – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
Deaf professionals, whom we term Deaf Language Specialists (DLS), are frequently employed to work with children and young people who have difficulties learning sign language, but there are few accounts of this work in the literature. Through questionnaires and focus groups, 23 DLSs described their work in this area. Deductive thematic analysis was…
Descriptors: Deafness, Specialists, Sign Language, Allied Health Personnel
Deaf Students' Translanguaging Practices in a Further Education College: Situating the Semiotic Repertoire in Social Interactions
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Iturriaga, Cristián; Young, Alys – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022
Further education (FE) colleges are the most usual postsecondary education destination for deaf young people in England. The role of college contexts in promoting deaf students' learning warrants further exploration given the gaps in educational attainment common to deaf students and the potential for FE context to provide new and/or enhanced…
Descriptors: Deafness, Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Identification of Deafness: Parents' Responses to Knowing Early and Their Expectations of Child Communication Development
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Young, Alys; Tattersall, Helen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007
This article presents results from an interview study of 45 parents/caregivers (representing 27 families) whose infants were correctly identified as deaf during the first phase of the implementation of the national universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in England. Average age of children when parents were interviewed was 25 weeks. Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Screening Tests, Identification, Deafness
Parents' of Deaf Children Evaluative Accounts of the Process and Practice of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
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Young, Alys; Tattersall, Helen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2005
This article presents results from a narrative interview study of 45 parents/caregivers whose infants were correctly identified as deaf through Phase 1 of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in England. It concerns the period from the first screening event to the point of referral for audiological assessment. It focuses on the meanings parents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Auditory Tests, Neonates
Influences of Student and Family Factors on Academic Outcomes of Mainstream Secondary School Deaf Students.
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Powers, Stephen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2003
A survey of 16-year-old English students with hearing impairments in 1995 (n=344) and 1996 (n=403) investigated family and environmental influences on General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) performance. The strongest predictors of GCSE success were later age of onset of deafness and high family socioeconomic status. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Deafness, Foreign Countries