scholarly journals THE FEELING UNDERSTANDING AND VALUES OF THE DEAF CHILDREN

Lire Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Qurrata 'Ain ◽  
Margana Margana

Deaf children have a language to communicate with each other. It is known as sign language. The sign language has grammatical, morpheme, syntactical and semantically rules. It can be helped the deaf children to understand the signs. The disability people or gift children have an equal with normal people. So, they deserve to get what they want and communicate with each other. Generally, the grammar of sign language for deaf people has used hand shape or movement even facial expression or body movement.  This article has aimed to expose the ability of deaf children to understand the feelings and values of others. It refers to social and cognitive development. Deaf children have access to communicate how peoples’ interaction and explanation for behaviors to get better social dynamics as an advantage in cognitive development. The deaf children often show the behavior problem and inconsistent social and sometimes they could not understand social rules.

Author(s):  
Clélia Nogueira ◽  
Edna Machado

Tem como propósito analisar os resultados de pesquisas realizadas com crianças surdas acerca do desenvolvimento cognitivo, com base na teoria psicogenética de Jean Piaget. A primeira teve como objetivo investigar o desenvolvimento das estruturas de classificação, seriação e conservação do número em crianças surdas em idade pré-escolar. A segunda avaliou o desenvolvimento de crianças surdas com idade variando entre 12 e 14 anos, ou seja, as estruturas referentes aos períodos operatório-concreto e operatório-formal, segundo a teoria psicogenética. Uma terceira pesquisa, desenvolvida sob a orientação de uma das pesquisadoras, tinha como objetivo verificar se as crianças surdas educadas sob a concepção bilíngüe apresentavam diferenças no desenvolvimento cognitivo em relação àquelas examinadas nas duas anteriores. Todas as três pesquisas foram desenvolvidas a partir do método clínico tal como idealizado por Piaget. A análise dos resultados nos permite afirmar que a tese piagetiana da insuficiência da linguagem para a construção das estruturas cognitivas está confirmada em nossos estudos, mas, por outro lado, podemos dizer que os resultados nos apontam para a existência de outros fatores que precisam ser compreendidos no desenvolvimento cognitivo do surdo. A adoção da língua de sinais é um avanço na concepção da surdez e, com certeza, permite ao surdo ampliar seu universo de relações afetivas e sociais com seus pares, mas entendemos que a adoção da abordagem bilíngüe não é a solução definitiva para a educação dos surdos. Apesar de ser imprescindível que os surdos aprendam, o mais cedo possível, uma língua de sinais, a sua educação, nos parece, necessita ainda de um cuidado especial. Palavras-chave: surdez; desenvolvimento cognitivo dos surdos; bilingüismo. Abstract Results from research with deaf children and their cognitive development are analyzed by Piaget's psychogenetic theory. Whereas the first research investigated the development of classification, series listing and number conservation in pre-school deaf children, the second evaluated the development of 12-14-year-old deaf children, or rather, the structures comprising the concrete operatory and formal operatory periods of the psychogenetic theory. A third research, undertaken by one of the authors, verified whether deaf children who received bilingual education showed any differences in cognitive development in contrast to those in the former two researches. The three researches have been developed according to Piaget's clinical method. Results show that our analysis confirmed Piaget's thesis of language insufficiency for the construction of cognitive structures. On the other hand, results also indicate other factors that must be understood with regard to deaf people's cognitive development. The use of the natural language for the deaf, or sign language, is a landmark in the knowledge on deafness and will help deaf people to broaden their affective and social relationships with their peers. The adoption of the bilingual approach will not be the definite solution for the education of deaf people. Although deaf people must learn sign language as early as possible, special care should be dispensed in the course of their educational formation. Keywords: deafness; cognitive development of deaf people; bilingualism.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0243162
Author(s):  
Barry Wright ◽  
Helen Phillips ◽  
Ann Le Couteur ◽  
Jennifer Sweetman ◽  
Rachel Hodkinson ◽  
...  

A Delphi consensus methodology was used to adapt a screening tool, the Social Responsiveness Scale– 2 (SRS-2), for use with deaf children including those whose preferred communication method is sign language. Using this approach; 27 international experts (The Delphi International Expert Panel), on the topic of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in deaf people, contributed to the review of item content. A criterion for agreement was set at 80% of experts on each item (with 75% acceptable in the final fourth round). The agreed modifications are discussed. The modified SRS-2 research adaptation for deaf people (referred to here as the “SRS-2 Deaf adaptation”) was then translated into British Sign Language using a robust translation methodology and validated in England in a sample of 198 deaf children, 76 with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and 122 without ASD. The SRS-2 Deaf adaptation was compared blind to a NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) guideline standard clinical assessment. The area under the Receiver Operating (ROC) curve was 0.811 (95% CI: 0.753, 0.869), with an optimal cut-off value of 73, which gave a sensitivity of 82% and a specificity of 67%. The Cronbach Alpha coefficient was 0.968 suggesting high internal consistency. The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient was 0.897, supporting test-retest reliability. This performance is equivalent to similar instruments used for screening ASD in the hearing population.


Author(s):  
Franc Solina ◽  
Slavko Krapez ◽  
Ales Jaklic ◽  
Vito Komac

Deaf people, as a marginal community, may have severe problems in communicating with hearing people. Usually, they have a lot of problems even with such—for hearing people—simple tasks as understanding the written language. However, deaf people are very skilled in using a sign language, which is their native language. A sign language is a set of signs or hand gestures. A gesture in a sign language equals a word in a written language. Similarly, a sentence in a written language equals a sequence of gestures in a sign language. In the distant past deaf people were discriminated and believed to be incapable of learning and thinking independently. Only after the year 1500 were the first attempts made to educate deaf children. An important breakthrough was the realization that hearing is not a prerequisite for understanding ideas. One of the most important early educators of the deaf and the first promoter of sign language was Charles Michel De L’Epée (1712-1789) in France. He founded the fist public school for deaf people. His teachings about sign language quickly spread all over the world. Like spoken languages, different sign languages and dialects evolved around the world. According to the National Association of the Deaf, the American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most frequently used language in the United States, after English and Spanish. ASL has more than 4,400 distinct signs. The Slovenian sign language (SSL), which is used in Slovenia and also serves as a case study sign language in this chapter, contains approximately 4,000 different gestures for common words. Signs require one or both hands for signing. Facial expressions which accompany signing are also important since they can modify the basic meaning of a hand gesture. To communicate proper nouns and obscure words, sign languages employ finger spelling. Since the majority of signing is with full words, signed conversation can proceed with the same pace as spoken conversation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (48) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen

Linguistic perspective can be used either to denote the way en event is described as seen from the perspective of one of the referents, or as a term for various linguistic means used to indicate whether a referent is new or given and whether an event is foreground or background. In this article, the former type is called referent perspective, the latter narrator perspective. In Danish Sign Language (DTS) narrator perspective is expressed by the signer’s eye contact with the addressee, the sign EN (‘one, a’) to indicate a new, prominent referent, and nonmanual signals indicating topicalization and accessibility. Referent perspective is expressed by combinations of predicates of motion and location with gaze, facial expression, and head and body orientation that represent a referent. Narratives elicited from DTS-signing adults by means of cartoons are shown to have a strong emphasis on referent perspective compared with narratives in spoken Danish elicited by means of the same cartoons. DTS-signing deaf children of six to nine years of age are shown to be well underway in acquiring the use of en, but they struggle with the expression of the referent perspective, especially the use of gaze direction and facial expression. The results are discussed in relation to Slobin’s (1996) notion rhetorical style and the role of iconicity in acquisition.


There are a lot of people who have many disabilities in our world out of which,people who are deaf and dumb cannot convey there messages to the normal people. Conversation becomes very difficult for this people. Deaf people cannot understand and hear what normal people is going to convey ,similarly dumb people need to convey their message using sign languages where normal people cannot understand unless he/she knows or understands the sign language. This brings to a need of an application which can be useful for having conversation between deaf,dumb and normal people. Here we are using hand gestures of Indian sign language (ISL) which contain all the alphabets and 0-9 digit gestures. The dataset of alphabets and digits is created by us.After dataset building we extracted the features using bagof- words and image preprocessing.With the feature extraction, histograms are been generated which maps alphabets to images. Finally, these features are fed to the supervised machine learning model to predict the gesture/sign. We did also use CNN model for training the model.


2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-497
Author(s):  
Christine Monikowski

In this volume of the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series, Metzger has edited 11 diverse topics addressing two themes: the perception of Deaf people and Deaf communities, and bilingualism. Deaf people's perception of themselves and their community is explored by authors who discuss an excellent array of topics, ranging from “miracle cures” for Deaf children in Mexico to the nature of name signs in the New Zealand Deaf community; from the linguistic rights of Deaf people in the European Union to a search for the roots of the Nicaraguan Deaf community; from a semiotic analysis of Argentine Sign Language to an analysis of how a Deaf child (American Sign Language) and his hearing family (English) make sense of each other's world views.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Kristin Snoddon ◽  
Joanne Weber

This commentary describes our perspective on transinstitutionalization as deaf teachers and researchers from different regions of Canada, and accounts for some of the ways in which transinstitutionalization manifests in the lives of deaf people, particularly in educational settings. In the present day, so-called inclusive education is often presented as the progressive alternative to institutionalization, or deaf schools. However, mainstream education in regular settings without adequate sign language support and the continuing polarization of language and identity options for deaf children are two of the main ways in which transinstitutionalization recurs for deaf children and adults and threatens the vitality of sign languages.


Author(s):  
Gordana Ilija Nikolic ◽  
Vesna Radoman ◽  
Sanja Dimoski

Empirical findings on the difficulties deaf children face in certain areas of cognitive, conative, emotional and social development served as a basis for The Integral Development Method for Deaf Children. The principles of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) relating to the importance of sign language, neglected for a long time, provided a wider basis of this method. The first part of the article presents the method in a general way. The research part of the article examined the results of two experimentally controlled workshops. The first workshop examined the effects of various non-verbal stimulation techniques on cognitive development. The second workshop examined the effects of a systematic application of sign language on communicative and educative development. Data in Study 1 were collected by Piagets test and in Study 2 we collected by the Communication Competence Scale. The sample consisted of 50 subjects in Study 1 and 60 subjects in Study 2. The subjects were deaf children aged 8 to 12 years. The results confirmed that systematic application of various non-verbal workshop techniques that are suitable for deaf children significantly contributes to the promotion of cognitive development and that they effectively enhance and accelerate the concrete operational stage. A systematic application of Serbian sign language influenced promotion of Serbian speech language and complete communicative competence as well as higher cohesion of sign language end speech language communication skills. Sign language also influenced school achievement. Key words: cognitive development; communication; non-verbal approaches; sign language


2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Edelist

<span>Cochlear implants and auditory-verbal therapy are the latest techniques and technologies used to make deaf people learn to listen and speak. This paper provides a genealogical analysis of the Cochlear Implant Program at SickKids Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and shows how this program exemplifies the medicalization of deafness while denying deaf children the opportunity to learn sign language. Using Foucault's concept of governmentality, the relations between power, knowledge, truth and their influences on the program's practices are revealed in order to provide insight into Canadian society's conceptions of deafness. This analysis reveals the Cochlear Implant Program as a capitalist establishment that is supported by unquestioned reverence of modern medicine and technology, oriented by a quest for normalcy. The paper concludes by encouraging members of the Deaf community and their supporters to challenge the hegemony of normalcy by utilizing alternate research-based knowledge-truths of cochlear implants and sign language.</span>


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