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Carmel Carne; Marcelyn Oostendorp; Anne Baker – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This exploratory study provides an overview of prominent themes pertaining to portrayals of sign languages (SLs) and Deaf people in the South African press (2011-2019), as well as an analysis of a subset of articles to illustrate the discursive constructions of each of the prominent ideological framings. The findings of the paper suggest that many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Deafness, News Media
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Byatt, Tiimothy J.; Duncan, Jill; Dally, Kerry; de Beuzeville, Louise – American Annals of the Deaf, 2021
The authors employed a scoping review to examine peer-reviewed journal articles published 2002-2020 focusing on adolescents who are deaf or hard of hearing and their self-reported identities. d/Deaf identity theory was explored in light of recent advances in developed countries, e.g., universal newborn hearing screening, increased access to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Adolescents, Identification (Psychology)
Knox, Jane; Kozulin, Alex – 1987
The paper reviews theories of Lev Vygotsky, founder of the Soviet school of cognitive developmental psychology and an architect of Soviet defectology, the discipline concerned with physically and mentally handicapped children. Three of his basic concepts are explained: (1) "cultural" versus "natural" mental functions; (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Deafness