Issues in the Therapy of Hearing Children with Deaf Parents

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances R. Frankenburg ◽  
Leon Sloman ◽  
Anna Perry
Keyword(s):  
Sibling Rivalry ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Hearing Child ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
The Family ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Common Situation

The psychiatric literature on deaf children is sparse. Even less attention has been paid to the more common situation of the hearing child raised by deaf parents. Such a child is deprived of the parents’ hearing and often the parents’ speech. The oldest hearing child in the family often takes on the role of family interpreter which may be a source of both pride and resentment. This can contribute to role reversal leading to a frustration of the child's dependency needs and bitter sibling rivalry. Other problems may result from the parents’ ambivalence towards their child. The available literature is surveyed and case illustrations are provided. Suggestions to therapists working with similar families are made.

scholarly journals Deaf Mothers: Communication, Activism, and the Family

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Najarian Souza
Keyword(s):  
Language Choice ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Deaf Adults ◽  
Deaf Women ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
College Educated

This article examines the mothering experiences of college educated Deaf women and connects this to their identities as part of the Deaf community. Using feminist life history interviews with ten Deaf women, the analysis focuses on their work as mothers and the connections with "maternal thinking," difference, and sameness. Findings include an analysis of the various strategies that these mothers used in their mothering, which include teaching the skills of lifetime educators and self-advocates to deaf children, sending their hearing children to Kids of Deaf Adults (KODA) camps and incorporating their activism and volunteering in their mothering. The author argues that an analysis of ability along with gender is useful to further current theorizing about gender and mothering as a kind of work and that an analysis of the role of language allows us to question the idea that mothering is an innate quality of women. Instead, the author argues that, due to the social context of their life situations, "maternal thinking" and language choice are learned practices that these women negotiate in their work as mothers.

scholarly journals Views from the borderline: Extracts from my life as a coloured child of Deaf adults, growing up in apartheid South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Harrison ◽  
Brian Watermeyer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Life World ◽  
Hearing Child ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
Deaf Adults ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Hearing Children

Background: Over 90% of Deaf parents have hearing children, but there are very few, if any, studies that have explored the life worlds of hearing children of Deaf adults (CODAs) in South Africa. This article is an account of part of the life experiences of a female hearing child who was born and raised by her Deaf parents in apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.Objectives: This study used auto-ethnography to explore the socialisation of a female coloured CODA during the height of South Africa’s apartheid era, in order to shed light on intersectional influences on identity and selfhood. The study was intended to contribute to the limited knowledge available on the life circumstances of CODAs in Global South contexts.Methods: Evocative auto-ethnography under a qualitative research paradigm was used to explore the life world of a now adult female hearing child of Deaf parents. Her thoughts, observations, reflections and involvements are articulated in a first person written narrative that is presented in this article. A thematic analysis approach was used to analyse data, and the themes that emerged are: (1) CODAs as language brokers, (2) being bilingual and trilingual, (3) being bicultural, (4) role reversal and parentification and (5) issues of identity. A discussion of these themes is interwoven with the literature, in an effort to provide a rich and robust analysis that contributes to the body of knowledge.Results: Multiple identity markers that include disability, gender, race, age, nationality, culture and language intersect to frame the life world of a hearing child of Deaf parents who grew up in the apartheid era in South Africa. The result is both positive and negative life experiences, arising from being located simultaneously in both a hearing and Deaf world.Conclusion: This study suggests that, in part, the life world of a hearing child of Deaf parents is multi-layered, multidimensional and complex; hence, it cannot be presented with a single description. Recommendations that inform policy and practice are outlined in the concluding section of the article.

scholarly journals Sign Language and Psychological Development of Deaf Children: State-of-the-Art (Foreign Studies Review)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
T.G. Bogdanova
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Hearing Disorders ◽  
Linguistic System ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Positive Effect

The article presents a review of research conducted by foreign psychologists on the role of sign language in the communicative, cognitive and social development of children with hearing disorders. Each national sign language is a kind of linguistic system that has a complex grammar, specific vocabulary and syntax. The main problems that arise in deaf children in the situation of ignoring the possibilities of sign language are discussed. A number of studies have shown that deaf children of deaf parents are not inferior to hearing children in their cognitive capabilities, that the use of sign language has a positive effect on cognitive functions and leads to greater creative activity, a better understanding of spatial relationships, and greater flexibility in solving problems. Researchers recognize the need for early acquisition of sign language by deaf children, even in case of use of modern rehabilitation techniques. It is sign language that could make up for the lack of communication tools characteristic of the initial stages of a child's mental development, which would serve to develop the cognitive sphere and personality and create conditions for emotional well-being. The review focuses on the difficulties in using sign language that are observed when selecting diagnostic tools and conducting psychological examinations.

scholarly journals Hearing children of Deaf parents: Gender and birth order in the delegation of the interpreter role in culturally Deaf families

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nomfundo F. Moroe ◽  
Victor De Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
South African ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
Deaf Adults ◽  
Interview Format ◽  
Culturally Deaf ◽  
Hearing Children

Background: Culturally, hearing children born to Deaf parents may have to mediate two different positions within the hearing and Deaf cultures. However, there appears to be little written about the experiences of hearing children born to Deaf parents in the South African context.Objective: This study sought to investigate the roles of children of Deaf adults (CODAs) as interpreters in Deaf-parented families, more specifically, the influence of gender and birth order in language brokering.Method: Two male and eight female participants between the ages of 21 and 40 years were recruited through purposive and snowball sampling strategies. A qualitative design was employed and data were collected using a semi-structured, open-ended interview format. Themes which emerged were analysed using thematic analysis.Results: The findings indicated that there was no formal assignment of the interpreter role; however, female children tended to assume the role of interpreter more often than the male children. Also, it appeared as though the older children shifted the responsibility for interpreting to younger siblings. The participants in this study indicated that they interpreted in situations where they felt they were not developmentally or emotionally ready, or in situations which they felt were better suited for older siblings or for siblings of another gender.Conclusion: This study highlights a need for the formalisation of interpreting services for Deaf people in South Africa in the form of professional interpreters rather than the reliance on hearing children as interpreters in order to mediate between Deaf and hearing cultures.

scholarly journals Adoption of the sign language with deaf and hard of hearing preschool children

Bastina ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 513-535
Author(s):  
Tamara Kovačević ◽  
Ljubica Isaković
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Hearing Children

This study analyses the process of adopting of the sign language with deaf and hard of hearing preschool children in the context of the result of linguistic and psycholinguistic research. The importance of the sign language is emphasized and its historical development is analyzed. It is pointed to the significance of the critical period for the adoption and the learning of the sign and spoken language with deaf and hard of hearing preschool children. The sign language is natural and primary linguistic expression of deaf children. Deaf and hard of hearing children are exposed to the sign and spoken language, they have better understanding and linguistic production than the children who are only exposed to the spoken language. Bilingualism involves the knowledge and the regular use of the sign language, which is used by the deaf community, and of the spoken language, which is used by the hearing majority. Children at the preschool age should be enabled to continue to adopt the language they started to adopt within the family (the sign language or the spoken language). Children will adopt the best both linguistic modalities through the interaction with other fluent speakers (the adults and children).

Parenthood of Deaf mothers of hearing CODA children: Overview of selected research

2020 ◽  
Vol 595 (8) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Malwina Kocoń
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Parental Role ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Hearing Status ◽  
The Family ◽  
Hearing Children

The aim of this article is to attempt to present the issue of parenthood of Deaf mothers of hearing, underage children (KODA). The presented subject is important from a scientific and cognitive point of view due to the important role of a mother in the family, and also due to the deficit of empirical research and scientific studies in the area of parenthood of Deaf mothers of KODA children. This article consists of five parts. Part one introduces the adopted terminological conventions and also draws attention to the issue of Deaf mothers from mixed-hearing status families as a rarely described or explored area. Part two and three form an attempt at synthetic description of the situation of Deaf mothers, as well as the situation of their hearing children (KODA). The main part of this article focuses on selected empirical studies carried out both in Poland and abroad. The article concludes with the author's summary and conclusions, highlighting that Deaf mothers, in their parental role, encounter a number of barriers regarding, among others, communication, access to information or social perception of parenthood of people with a damaged hearing.

The Role of Family Communication in the Family Resilience of Deaf Children’s Families

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110380
Author(s):  
Maulana Rezi Ramadhana ◽  
Ravik Karsidi ◽  
Prahastiwi Utari ◽  
Drajat Tri Kartono
Keyword(s):  
Family Communication ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Family Resilience ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Communication Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Types ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the family resilience of deaf children through the perspective of family communication. We examine the relationship between family communication patterns (including conformity and conversation orientation) with family resilience and compare differences in processes in family resilience of family types. Parents of deaf children ( n = 129) in Indonesia completed a survey of family communication patterns and family resilience. Our findings show that there is a significant positive relationship between family communication patterns and family resilience, with preference to conversation orientations. All family types were identified as having a relationship with family resilience with different uniqueness in their resilience processes. With the relationship between these two concepts, perhaps the concept of communication patterns in the family can become a theoretical framework that binds the literature on family resilience in a sample of families with deaf children. Implications and direction for future research are discussed.

Taalontwikkeling Door Middel Van Gebaren En Gebarentaal

1986 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Rita Harder
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Linguistic Development ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Hearing Parents ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
Total Communication ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
The Way

In the last few years many different studies have shed light on the cognitive and linguistic development of deaf children of deaf parents, using sign language. Since hearing loss does not influence a visual modality, the assumption was made that the linguistic development of deaf children of deaf parents, in the acquisition of sign language, should be normal. Research has shown that the way deaf children of deaf parents acquire sign language is similar to the way hearing children acquire their language. Both groups use the same semantic relations first in the same syntactic structures, the vocabulary and length of utterance expand in the same manner, and they show the same sort of overgeneralizations. As a result of studies concerning the language development of deaf children of deaf parents hometraining-programs for deaf children of hearing parents have reconsidered their approach concerning the use of signs in their programs, that is in the Total Communication philosophy they consider signs as an important part of the communication between hearing parents and their deaf children.

Sensitivity to conversational maxims in deaf and hearing children

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 929-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUCA SURIAN ◽  
MARIANTONIA TEDOLDI ◽  
MICHAEL SIEGAL
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Instructional Setting ◽  
Bilingual Instruction ◽  
Native Signers ◽  
Maxim Of Quality ◽  
Hearing Children

ABSTRACTWe investigated whether access to a sign language affects the development of pragmatic competence in three groups of deaf children aged 6 to 11 years: native signers from deaf families receiving bimodal/bilingual instruction, native signers from deaf families receiving oralist instruction and late signers from hearing families receiving oralist instruction. The performance of these children was compared to a group of hearing children aged 6 to 7 years on a test designed to assess sensitivity to violations of conversational maxims. Native signers with bimodal/bilingual instruction were as able as the hearing children to detect violations that concern truthfulness (Maxim of Quality) and relevance (Maxim of Relation). On items involving these maxims, they outperformed both the late signers and native signers attending oralist schools. These results dovetail with previous findings on mindreading in deaf children and underscore the role of early conversational experience and instructional setting in the development of pragmatics.

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