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Todorov, Michelle; Galvin, Karyn; Punch, Renée; Klieve, Sharon; Rickards, Field – Deafness & Education International, 2022
Classroom engagement can be problematic for students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH), but is essential to ensure that they can reach their best educational and postschool outcomes. This study used semi-structured interviews to explore the self-perceived barriers and facilitators to classroom engagement for 16 DHH students educated in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Barriers, Students with Disabilities
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Ching, Teresa Y. C.; Hou, Sanna; Seeto, Mark; Harkus, Samantha; Ward, Meagan; Marnane, Vivienne; Kong, Kelvin – Deafness & Education International, 2020
Ear infection or otitis media (OM) occurs in many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at a young age and tends to persist over a long period of time. Chronic OM is associated with conductive hearing loss that reduces a child's access to sounds. This can have a negative impact on development of listening and communication skills. Primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diseases, Pacific Islanders, Young Children
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Ching, Teresa Y. C.; Scarinci, Nerina; Marnane, Vivienne; Sjahalam-King, Jessica; Button, Laura; Whitfield, Jessica – Deafness & Education International, 2018
To explore the factors influencing parents' choice of communication mode during early education of their child with hearing loss. Qualitative descriptive analysis of semi-structured interviews with parents of children with hearing loss. Fourteen parents of children who participated in the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment…
Descriptors: Parents, Decision Making, Communication Strategies, Hearing Impairments
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Marchbank, Alison Margaret – Deafness and Education International, 2011
This article is drawn from a larger doctoral study that explored hearing mothers' experiences of discovering that their babies had a permanent hearing loss in Australia in 2008. The particular focus for this paper is the period in time after a concern is flagged, either by a newborn hearing screener or the mother herself, until a hearing loss is…
Descriptors: Test Results, Delayed Speech, Mothers, Hearing Impairments
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Brown, P. Margaret; Remine, Maria D. – Deafness and Education International, 2008
Equity of service delivery to families of children with hearing loss is an important outcome that is sometimes difficult to achieve. With the current philosophy of family centred practice, questions arise as to how service can be delivered, how equitable that service might be, and how the quality of service may or may not be affected. There were…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Hearing Impairments, Rural Areas, Delivery Systems
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Nott, Pauline; Brown, P. Margaret; Cowan, Rogert; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Deafness and Education International, 2005
Children with hearing loss and their families are now presenting for early intervention support and guidance at increasingly younger ages. At present there is a paucity of research that informs teachers about early language development in the child with hearing loss. Di-EL First Words (Di-EL) is a diary technique through which parents record their…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Hearing (Physiology), Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition