Toward a Sign Language-Friendly Questionnaire Design
This article focuses on the design of an interactive video questionnaire for sign language users. From a historical review of the existing literature on research methods and previous sign language questionnaire, the article examines the design features affected in the process of making accessible questionnaires with sign language videos: format and layout. The article finishes with the solution developed toward mainstreaming sign language questionnaires in order to contribute to a diverse and inclusive society for all citizens. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - July 4, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Quantifying Facial Expression Intensity and Signal Use in Deaf Signers
AbstractWe live in a world of rich dynamic multisensory signals. Hearing individuals rapidly and effectively integrate multimodal signals to decode biologically relevant facial expressions of emotion. Yet, it remains unclear how facial expressions are decoded by deaf adults in the absence of an auditory sensory channel. We thus compared early and profoundly deaf signers (n = 46) with hearing nonsigners (n = 48) on a psychophysical task designed to quantify their recognition performance for the six basic facial expressions of emotion. Using neutral-to-expression image morphs and noise-to-full signal images, we quantif...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - July 4, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Injustice in the Absence of Language
Review of:GlickmanN. S.& HallW. C., (2019). Language Deprivation and Deaf Mental Health. New York, NY: Routledge. Softcover. 291  pages. $39.95 (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 14, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Systematic Review of Literature: Social Capital and Adolescents who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
AbstractOutcomes have improved for adolescents who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) in recent years in areas such as language and speech; however, outcomes such as pragmatic and psychosocial development are still not equal to adolescents with typical hearing. This systematic review of literature explored recent research as it pertains to social capital and adolescents who are DHH. The inclusion criteria were extended to include other populations who are DHH and adolescents with other disabilities to identify future research directions. Themes identified in the reviewed literature viewed through social capital theory inclu...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 11, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Coming of Age: A CODA, Her Father, and Their Story of Identity
Mosley HallC J (2018).Paris in America: A Deaf Nanticoke Shoemaker and His Daughter. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - May 25, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Psychological Distress in Bullied Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adolescents
This study determined the prevalence of bullying victimization among DHH adolescents in Taiwan and ascertained the relation of bullying victimization experiences and family and school variables with their psychological well-being. Data were collected from the 2011 Special Needs Education Longitudinal Study database. Multivariate regression analysis was performed on variables comprising seven items measuring psychological distress; four types of bullying victimizations; and family-, school-, and peer-related factors. Approximately 65% of DHH adolescents experienced at least one type of bullying victimization. Factors such a...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - May 15, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Modality and Interrelations Among Language, Reading, Spoken Phonological Awareness, and Fingerspelling
AbstractBetter understanding of the mechanisms underlying early reading skills can lead to improved interventions. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine multivariate associations among reading, language, spoken phonological awareness, and fingerspelling abilities for three groups of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) beginning readers: those who were acquiring only spoken English (n = 101), those who were visual learners and acquiring sign (n = 131), and those who were acquiring both (n = 104). Children were enrolled in kindergarten, first, or second grade. Within-group and between-group confirmatory factor analysis ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - May 15, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Work and Employment Characteristics of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults
This study presents the analysis of two data sets. The first was drawn from a survey of 804 DHH adults in Denmark. The second was a survey completed by 190 DHH adults with post-secondary qualification in the United States. In the Danish sample, among the spoken language users, higher ages, higher level of educational attainment, and no additional disabilities were associated with having a job. Among the sign language users, higher ages, higher level of educational attainment, earlier ages at hearing loss diagnosis, and not using cochlear implants were associated with having a job. In the US sample, male gender and better s...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - May 7, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Morphological Accuracy in the Speech of Bimodal Bilingual Children with CIs
AbstractSign language use in the (re)habilitation of children with cochlear implants (CIs) remains a controversial issue. Concerns that signing impedes spoken language development are based on research comparing children exposed to spoken and signed language (bilinguals) to children exposed only to speech (monolinguals), although abundant research demonstrates that bilinguals and monolinguals differ in language development. We control for bilingualism effects by comparing bimodal bilingual (signing-speaking) children with CIs (BB-CI) to those with typical hearing (BB-TH). Each child had at least one Deaf parent and was exp...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - May 7, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Comparing Word Characteristic Effects on Vocabulary of Children with Cochlear Implants
This study evaluates the effects of neighborhood density and phonotactic probability on the expressive vocabulary of 81 children between five and seven years old (n = 27 cochlear implant users,n = 27 children matched for chronological age, andn = 27 children matched for vocabulary size). Children were asked to name pictures associated with words that have common and rare phonotactic probability and high and sparse neighborhood density. Results indicate that children with cochlear implants, similar to both groups of children with typical hearing, tend to know words with common probability/high density or with rare probabili...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 30, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Signing Exact English Transliteration: Effects of Speaking Rate and Lag Time on Production Accuracy
AbstractThis paper is the third in a series concerned with the level of access provided to deaf and hard of hearing children who rely on interpreters to access classroom communication. The first two papers focused on the accuracy and intelligibility of educational interpreters who use Cued Speech (CS); this study examines the accuracy of those who use Signing Exact English (SEE). Accuracy, or the proportion of the message correctly produced by the interpreter, was evaluated in 12 SEE transliterators with varying degrees of experience at three different speaking rates (slow, normal, and fast). Results were similar to those ...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 23, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Oral Language Performance of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in Mainstream Schools
This study examined the language outcomes of Cantonese-speaking deaf or hard-of-hearing children who attend primary schools within the Hong Kong educational system and considered whether the system currently meets the needs of these children. The Hong Kong Cantonese Oral Language Assessment Scale, which comprises six subtests, was used to assess 98 children with mild to profound hearing loss. A regression analysis was used to examine the influences of various variables on oral language performance in these children. Notably, 41% of the participants had achieved age-appropriate oral language skills, while 18% and 41% exhibi...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 9, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Career Self-Efficacy and Family Influence among Youth with Different Hearing Status
This study examined the career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) of deaf and typically hearing young adults and the contribution of career-related family support and expectations to this type of self-efficacy. Participants were 110 young adults: 50 deaf persons and 60 persons with typical hearing. They completed the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale and the Family Influence Scale. Study groups did not differ in their CDMSE. However, deaf participants reported lower levels of financial support and higher levels of family expectations compared to participants with typical hearing. An interaction was found betwee...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 9, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

DHH Students ’ Comprehension of Irony in Self-paced Reading
AbstractIrony comprehension can be a kind of challenge to those who are relatively less skillful in reading. To examine how DHH college students (DCSs) were different from hearing college students (HCSs) in the reading of ironic discourses, we conducted two experiments in the self-paced reading task. In Experiment 1, the statement was either literally congruent with the preceding context or had to be understood in an ironic way in each trial; In Experiment 2, the statement was the same but the context was not across the two levels of discourse type. The DCSs generally had a poorer performance than the hearing participants....
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - April 9, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Assessing Pragmatic Skills Using Checklists with Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: A Systematic Review
AbstractThis paper investigates the use of checklists to assess pragmatics in children and adolescents who are deaf and hard of hearing. A systematic literature review was undertaken to identify all of the published research articles between 1979 and 2018 on the topic of the assessment of pragmatics for this population of children and adolescents. The 67 papers identified in this review were analyzed and all papers that utilized a checklist to assess pragmatic skills were identified. Across the 18 different published papers on the use of pragmatic skills among children who are deaf and hard of hearing, nine checklists were...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - March 31, 2019 Category: Audiology Source Type: research