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Linguistic but Not Cognitive Weaknesses in Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Poor Comprehenders
This study examined the reading comprehension profiles, and the related linguistic and cognitive skills, of 146 Chinese students in Grades 3 –9 who are deaf or hard of hearing (d/Dhh). Employing a rigorous regression approach, the current study identified 19 unexpected poor comprehenders, 24 expected average comprehenders, and 16 unexpected good comprehenders. Compared to the expected average and unexpected good comprehenders, the unex pected poor comprehenders performed worse in broad linguistic skills (i.e., Chinese sign language comprehension, vocabulary, and segmental and suprasegmental phonological awareness), but t...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 7, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Get Your Elbow Off the Horn: Stories Through the Years
Review of: (2020). Get Your Elbow Off the Horn: Stories Through the Years. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 17, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Teaching With Picture Books on Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students ’Creativity
AbstractStudies have shown that teaching with picture books can help improve creativity development of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. A quasi-experimental research design was applied in this study. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students in grades 3 –6 from two cities, B and T, were selected as the samples in a pilot study. The Evaluation of Potential Creativity (EPoC) test tool (Ver. A) was applied to measure creativity through student performance on individual tests of divergent and integrative thinking. Following thirty 40-min lessons over 10 weeks, the EPoC test tool (Ver. B) was used to measure student creativi...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 17, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

A Review of the Conversational Pragmatic Skills of Children With Cochlear Implants
This study reviewed published literature describing the pragmatic skills of children who use CIs in conversational contexts. Twenty-five studies met the inclusion criteria, and data were extracted describing participant characteristics, methodology, data type, outcomes, and factors associated with outcomes. Pragmatic skills were described in three broad categories: speech acts, turns, and breakdowns and repairs. Participants showed heterogeneity in age, age at implantation, duration of implant use, and languages used. Studies employed a variety of methodologies, used a range of different sample types and coding strategies,...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 17, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

The ASL-LEX 2.0 Project: A Database of Lexical and Phonological Properties for 2,723 Signs in American Sign Language
We report on the expanded database (ASL-LEX 2.0) that contains 2,723 ASL signs. For each sign, ASL-LEX now includes a more detailed phonological description, phonological density and complexity measures, frequency ratings (from deaf signers), iconicity ratings (from hearing non-signers and deaf signers), transparency ( “guessability”) ratings (from non-signers), sign and videoclip durations, lexical class, and more. We document the steps used to create ASL-LEX 2.0 and describe the distributional characteristics for sign properties across the lexicon and examine the relationships among lexical and phonological propertie...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - February 18, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Deaf People and Society: Psychological, Sociological, and Educational Perspectives 2nd Edition
New York: Routledge, 2017 pp. xvi, 336. $59.37 (paper) (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - February 8, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

The Spoken Language Checklist: A User-Friendly Normed Language Acquisition Checklist
AbstractThere are many variables having an impact on the spoken language acquisition of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children; therefore, it is critical for parents and professionals to have appropriate tools to monitor language acquisition. The Spoken Language Checklist (SLC) was developed to monitor and identify developmental milestones in a user-friendly checklist format that includes norms. The availability of the SLC will help parents and professionals to monitor the spoken language development of DHH children and provide interventions that should any delays be observed. Recognizing these delays early could prevent ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - February 8, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Fathers of Young Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Children: A Systematic Review
AbstractMuch of the literature exploring the role of parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) has focused on mothers; yet, the involvement and perspectives of fathers is valuable and warrants attention. Following the PRISMA guidelines, this systematic literature review examined the peer-reviewed research that has differentially explored the experiences of fathers and mothers of young DHH children. Utilizing three databases (Web of Science, PsychINFO, Scopus) and spanning 50  years (1969–2019), 457 non-duplicated articles were identified that included the fathers of DHH children, birth to six years. Inde...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - January 18, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Stress in Parents of School-Age Children and Adolescents With Cochlear Implants
This study compares general and condition-specific stress (via the Family Stress Scale) in 31 parents of CI users (8 –16 years) to previously published samples of DHH children, and it examines child- and CI-related factors associated with parental stress. Parents of modern-day CI users reported significantly lower stress than parents of children using older-generation CI technology and similar levels of overall stress to parents of young children preimplantation. However, significant item-level differences emerged (e.g., communication, device management) pre- versus postimplant. Child temperament significantly predicted...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - January 14, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Theory of Mind (ToM) Development in Thai Deaf Children
This study explored theory of mind (ToM) development in school-aged deaf children. To address new questions, we gave a standard, well-controlled false-belief test to a large (n = 200) sample of severely-to-profoundly deaf children aged 8–15 years in a non-Western culture (Thailand). There were 190 deaf children of hearing parents and 10 deaf native signers with signing deaf parents, consistent with overall population ratios. Comparing our Thai sample’s ToM perfor mance on standard tests of false-belief understanding with that reported in past studies, our results showed a 67% ToM success rate for Thai severely-to-...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 30, 2020 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Social Capital, Loneliness, and Peer Relationships of Adolescents who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
AbstractThere are many documented benefits of social capital to adolescents in general, and for young people who are deaf or hard of hearing social capital can potentially have a buffering effect against adverse life outcomes. Using the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire (Asher et al., 1984;Cassidy& Asher, 1992) and the Looman Social Capital Scale (Looman, 2006), this research investigated changes in levels of social capital and loneliness and peer relationships of deaf or hard of hearing adolescents before attending a residential camp and then three, six- and 12-months post-camp. The camp was specific...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 18, 2020 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Factors Associated With Anxiety Symptoms in Australian Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children
AbstractDeaf/deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) children are at an increased risk of developing mental health problems, with growing evidence that they may experience greater anxiety symptoms than hearing peers. The present study investigated whether Australian children with varying degrees of hearing loss experienced increased anxiety symptoms compared to hearing children. Furthermore, we examined whether child anxiety symptoms were associated with known risk factors including psychological symptoms of anxiety and depression in parents, age at detection, early intervention and device fitting, type of hearing device, and peer p...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 18, 2020 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

The Impact of Aging on Spatial Abilities in Deaf Users of a Sign Language
AbstractResearch involving the general population of people who use a spoken language to communicate has demonstrated that older adults experience cognitive and physical changes associated with aging. Notwithstanding the differences in the cognitive processes involved in sign and spoken languages, it is possible that aging can also affect cognitive processing in deaf signers. This research aims to explore the impact of aging on spatial abilities among sign language users. Results showed that younger signers were more accurate than older signers on all spatial tasks. Therefore, the age-related impact on spatial abilities fo...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - November 21, 2020 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Language and Reading Comprehension Abilities of Elementary School-Aged Deaf Children
AbstractBilingual education programs for deaf children have long asserted that American Sign Language (ASL) is a better language of instruction English-like signing because ASL is a natural language. However, English-like signing may be a useful bridge to reading English. In the present study, we tested 32 deaf children between third and sixth grade to assess their capacity to use ASL or English-like signing in nine different languages and reading tasks. Our results found that there was no significant difference in the deaf children ’s ability to comprehend narratives in ASL compared to when they are told in English-like...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - November 19, 2020 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Assessing Vocabulary in Deaf and Hearing Children using Finnish Sign Language
This study investigates children ’s vocabulary knowledge in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL), specifically their understanding of different form-meaning mappings by using a multilayered assessment format originally developed for British Sign Language (BSL). The web-based BSL vocabulary test byMann (2009) was adapted for FinSL following the steps outlined byMann, Roy and Morgan (2016) and piloted with a small group of deaf and hearing native signers (N = 24). Findings showed a hierarchy of difficulty between the tasks, which is concordant with results reported previously for BSL and American Sign Language (ASL). Addition...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - October 14, 2020 Category: Audiology Source Type: research