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
A Commentary on "Racism Within the Deaf Community"
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(4):213-225. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a922852.ABSTRACTIn 1972, Glenn Anderson collaborated with New York University colleague Frank Bowe to publish an American Annals of the Deaf article titled "Racism Within the Deaf Community" (Anderson & Bowe, 1972). It was written, in part, due to the influence of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, which affected both the Black Deaf and Black hearing communities, as well as in response to Anderson's experiences with a Deaf club in Detroit. Given that 52 years have passed since the article was published, this updated version, coauthored with Gallaudet Univ...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Glenn B Anderson Lindsay Moeletsi Dunn Source Type: research
The Abrupt Transition to Online Learning: Multiple Perspectives
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(3):9-16. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a917246.ABSTRACTTransitioning to virtual learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic made the numerous obstacles faced by deaf and hard of hearing students more apparent, and created new challenges for all involved. From this experience, much knowledge was gained that can continue to be implemented and researched to provide better access and accommodations for ongoing online education. In the present article, we introduce an American Annals of the Deaf Special Issue whose contributing authors offer a response to the challenges experienced by deaf education researc...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Blake Probert Raschelle Neild Patrick Graham Source Type: research
Is the Window of Learning Only Cracked Open? Parents' Perspectives on Virtual Learning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(3):17-28. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a917247.ABSTRACTDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, parents quickly assumed the role of teachers to support their children's learning at home. Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students often rely on additional accommodations to access their education. The authors investigated the perspectives of 40 parents of K-12 DHH students on the use of virtual learning during the pandemic. An electronic survey was distributed through Qualtrics to gain an understanding of the new learning environment of remote instruction. The participants' responses revealed that they felt that challenges ...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Andrea D Alford Jamie M Bencak Erich A Tucker Douglas C Williams Frances F Courson Beverly J Buchanan Ashley N Greene M Diane Clark Source Type: research
Virtual Assessment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in the Schools
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;168(3):29-40. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.a917248.ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic placed stress on all aspects of the educational system. Many state departments of education acknowledged the disruption to individualized education program evaluation and implementation but insisted that evaluation timelines and services continue undisrupted. School psychologists were therefore forced to navigate the viability of virtual assessment without established research supporting this type of student evaluation. Formal assessments used in the identification of learning disabilities and other areas of disability were not stan...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 8, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Brittany A Dale Raschelle Neild Source Type: research
