Deaf Young People and their Families: Developing by Susan Gregory

By Susan Gregory

It is a longitudinal follow-up to the examine mentioned within the Deaf baby and his family members, now republished as Deaf young ones and their households. Eighteen years after the unique research, seventy-five percentage of the unique households were traced and this new quantity presents an account of the next interviews with either the fogeys and the deaf children themselves. individuals replicate not just at the outcomes of deafness inside of their very own lives, yet at the altering context for deaf humans. It features a comparability of the perspectives of folks with these in their little children and an exam of things in formative years which can relate to later improvement. In its provision of a special perception into the deaf younger person's standpoint on lifestyles, it will likely be a worthy source for all these inquisitive about deafness and precise schooling, together with households, deaf humans, pros and teachers.

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Oh Mum, what did he sayf and I know I shouldn't do it, I don't like it. If someone is talking to me and they say, 'What did she sayf 1 don't like it, it's horrible. But I don't do it very often. Only when I am tired I turn to Mum, because she is easier to lip read. Janet, 22 years, oral My father is lazy, he never looks at me, because he just does not bother. Yes. Lazy () I watch him but he does not watch me. I am always teasing him because he can't see very well. My father has very little time for me 38 Family life and communication — he is trying to get extra time — he still worries about me because I am deaf.

Ruth, 19 years, oral I've no idea and I am not interested. 3. Apart from some agreement on the use of the term 'profoundly deaf (which in fact overrepresented that group with respect to other studies), the agreement was small between the two groups. In asking the question, we ourselves of course gave credibility to the notion that it was relevant, which may have put pressure on the young people to come up with an answer. 3. Degrees of hearing loss reported by parents and young people Parents Profound Severe Moderate Partially hearing Don't know Not answered Young people Number % Number % 52 9 0 9 12 0 63 11 0 11 15 0 32 4 1 7 15 2 53 7 2 12 25 3 This lack of knowledge about hearing loss has been reported in other studies.

1 say well, we have been talking about the weather and he says, 'Well what did she say about the weather*' Mother of Andrew, 21 years, BSL They said they thought I knew already A more insidious consequence of the difficulties in group discussion and the limits on informal conversation, however, seemed to be that many deaf young people often found that they had not been made aware of significant family events, often not until well after the event. As far as it is possible to ascertain, this rarely seemed to be due to deliberate concealment, but just that they had missed out on the information.

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