Research
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(2):329-332. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a912146.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588082 | DOI:10.1353/aad.2023.a912146 (Source: American Annals of the Deaf)
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Source Type: research
Perhaps This Is Everything You Wanted to Know About Vygotsky, but Were Afraid to Ask
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):7-11. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904164.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588083 | DOI:10.1353/aad.2023.a904164 (Source: American Annals of the Deaf)
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Peter V Paul Source Type: research
Vygotskian Perspectives in Deaf Education: An Introduction in Two Movements
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):12-36. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904165.ABSTRACTVygotsky's (1993) Fundamentals of Defectology is a radical's handbook of deaf and disability studies. Vygotsky's overall research program views disabilities, including deafness, from an integrated biosocial and critical theory standpoint. In two movements, I introduce an American Annals of the Deaf Special Issue on Vygotskian perspectives in deaf education focused mainly on his Defectology volume. Movement One describes Vygotsky's life, research, death, and posthumous impact by situating his deaf pedagogy research as one node in a network of defectologic...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Michael E Skyer Source Type: research
Vygotskian Resonances With the African Worldview of Ubuntu for Decolonial Deaf Education
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):37-55. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904166.ABSTRACTThe African worldview of Ubuntu predates Vygotskian theory, but the Ubuntu view that the community defines the person aligns uncannily with Vygotsky's biosocial proposition and contemporary conceptions of deaf ontology and epistemology. Unlike prevailing Euro-American thought, Ubuntu accentuates the view that it is not any physical or psychological characteristic of the individual that defines personhood. Instead, Ubuntu aphorisms, the containers of meaning in African epistemology, indicate that the reality of the communal world is at least equal if not ...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Martin Musengi Source Type: research
Six Arguments for Vygotskian Pragmatism in Deaf Education: Multimodal Multilingualism as Applied Harm Reduction
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):56-79. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904167.ABSTRACTDeaf education research and practice have not always lived up to the ideal of improving deaf students' lives. Consequently, we have constructed novel arguments supporting deaf pedagogy using pragmatic ethics, the aim of which is to increase benefit and decrease harm to individuals and society. The ideal of harm reduction asks the pragmatist to pursue the path of action least likely to result in injury to others. Besides applying ideas that reduce harm, educators must also increase benefits for deaf students. Our analysis synthesizes Vygotskian perspectiv...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Jessica Scott Jon Henner Michael E Skyer Source Type: research
Finding Vygotsky in Early Childhood Deaf Education: Sociocultural Bodies and Conversations
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):80-101. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904168.ABSTRACTChildren, including those who are deaf, become aware of and learn about their environments through playing and social and cultural interactions. For most deaf children, preschool classrooms are optimal spaces for these interactions to occur, but only if they can fully engage with this environment. We discuss the need for and constituent aspects of full access to learning in these environments for deaf children. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory is employed chiefly as the basis for exploring and analyzing useful strategies for educators and families of dea...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Patrick Graham Christopher Kurz Christi Batamula Source Type: research
Synthesizing Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory and Deaf Pedagogy Framework Toward Deaf Education Reform: Perspectives From Teachers of the Deaf
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):102-127. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904169.ABSTRACTIn U.S. deaf education, disablement results from a normative interpretation of disability in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. However, Vygotsky's Fundamentals of Defectology (1993) allows educators to view current deaf education pedagogical practices through a sociocultural-constructivist lens and reject the current remedial special education model. We explore our experience as teachers of the deaf to analyze the current state of deaf education, synthesizing two core areas of Vygotskian research-sociocultural theory and deaf pedagogy-an...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Katie R Potier Heidi Givens Source Type: research
The Deaf Biosocial Condition: Metaparadigmatic Lessons From and Beyond Vygotsky's Deaf Pedagogy Research
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):128-161. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904170.ABSTRACTLev Vygotsky (1993) described deaf ontology as dynamic interactions that uniquely but inexorably synthesize biology and society. The deaf biosocial condition is a deceptively simple theory. Principally, it clarifies imbricated issues of axiology, power, and knowledge by centering positive adaptive compensations that sublate deafness. Using Vygotsky's theoretical proposals, I organized four distinct paradigms of deaf research and analyzed a historical case of sign language deprivation from Soviet Russia in the 1930s. On the basis of this critical litera...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Michael E Skyer Source Type: research
From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles: Vygotskian-Inspired Conclusions for Biomedicine and Deaf Education
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):162-176. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904171.ABSTRACTIn this concluding article of an American Annals of the Deaf Special Issue, we draw on Vygotsky's Fundamentals of Defectology to argue that the essence of deaf pedagogy is not centered on constructing deaf students' hearing abilities but on a biosocial orientation that considers the whole multimodal child with unfettered access to natural signed languages. In alignment with this biosocial view, we recognize and resist the overarching influence of biomedical professionals and systems on deaf education. Such biomedical influence comes with convenient det...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Kristina Willicheva Wyatte C Hall Source Type: research
Dialectics of Deafness in the Soviet Union: A Review of Claire L. Shaw's < em > Deaf in the USSR < /em >
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(1):177-182. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a904172.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588091 | DOI:10.1353/aad.2023.a904172 (Source: American Annals of the Deaf)
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Ksenia Istomina Source Type: research
O Morphology, Morphology, Wherefore Art Thou, Morphology? A Call for Research
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(4):131-136. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a922847.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38588093 | DOI:10.1353/aad.2023.a922847 (Source: American Annals of the Deaf)
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Peter V Paul Source Type: research
Inclusion of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Saudi Arabia: A Study of the Perceptions of Teachers
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(4):137-156. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a922848.ABSTRACTThe researchers investigated how teachers perceive the inclusion of deaf and hard of hearing (D/hh) students in mainstream classrooms in Saudi Arabia. They also examined how teachers' perception of this inclusion is influenced by their position (as a teacher in special or mainstream education). The researchers collected 196 teacher responses using an existing online survey (partly open-ended). They found that, overall, teachers in Saudi Arabia had slightly negative perceptions of teaching D/hh students in mainstream classrooms. But their teaching posit...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Fahad Aseery Ali Alasmari Source Type: research
Being a Deaf Woman in Bedouin Society
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(4):157-173. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a922849.ABSTRACTIsrael's Bedouin population, an ethnic minority, has a higher incidence of deafness than that reported in the literature, but is not studied sufficiently. A patriarchal and collective society, in recent years it has undergone accelerated change spurred by Israel's urbanization policy. Deaf women are an inseparable part of Bedouin society, but they are transparent and their needs are not met. In a qualitative study of 23 Bedouin women with congenital deafness who participated in the only social club for the deaf among the Bedouin population in southern ...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail Miriam Levinger Source Type: research
Pragmatic Competence of Children With Cochlear Implants in Linguistic Activities
The objective of the study was to analyze the pragmatic competence of children with cochlear implants (CIs). The researchers explored whether children with CIs participated in communicative exchanges in a similar way to children with typical hearing (TH), as well as how the participation of children with CIs was regulated by the activity they performed. The sample consisted of 31 children with CIs (prelingually deaf, with a hearing age equal to or greater than 2 years) and 31 children with TH. The researchers used two activities to carry out the study: conversation and picture naming. The results showed that the children w...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Daniela Mieres Cristina Cambra Josep-Maria Losilla Encarna P érez Source Type: research
Parents' Perspectives on the Outcome of Cochlear Implantation for the Deaf Child and the Family in Saudi Arabia
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(4):191-212. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a922851.ABSTRACTThe researchers investigated parents' perspectives on the outcome of cochlear implantation on the deaf child and the family in Saudi Arabia with respect to linguistic, social, psychological, and educational aspects. They also explored potential factors influencing parents' perspectives on the outcome of a cochlear implant (CI). Seventy-seven parents completed the questionnaire, and multiple linear regression and descriptive statistics were used to answer the research questions. Most of the parents (88.5%) reported choosing a CI for their deaf child bec...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Khalid Alasim Source Type: research
