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Oscar L. Ocuto – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Engaged communication between mother and a child in their early developmental stages is one of the predictors of children's development of higher-order thinking skills. For deaf children, this engaged communication between mother and child hinges on the home language environment (HLE) being fully accessible to the child. This research uses…
Descriptors: Deafness, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Sign Language
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Belenyi, Emese; Flora, Gavril – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022
This paper discusses language use and identity patterns in families set up by deaf partners living in Romania, where at least one of the spouses belongs to the ethnic Hungarian minority. Language use and transmission of identity to children in ethnically homogenous (Hungarian) or heterogeneous (Hungarian--Romanian) families of deaf are explored.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Identification (Psychology), Deafness
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Brown, P. Margaret; Cornes, Andrew – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2015
This study investigated the mental health problems of 89 deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) adolescents in New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia. Participants completed the written (for oral students) or signed version for competent Australian Sign Language (Auslan) users version of the Youth Self Report (YSR). Students were educated in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Adolescents
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Hrastinski, Iva; Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
There has been a scarcity of studies exploring the influence of students' American Sign Language (ASL) proficiency on their academic achievement in ASL/English bilingual programs. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of ASL proficiency on reading comprehension skills and academic achievement of 85 deaf or hard-of-hearing signing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, American Sign Language
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Miller, Paul – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2002
A study of 27 students with deafness raised by hearing parents who advocated a strict oral approach, 22 students with deafness who used Israeli Sign Language, and 39 controls, found both the controls and participants with prelingual deafness who were trained to communicate orally recoded visually presented target words phonologically. (Contains…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Family Influence
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Bandurski, Marcin; Galkowski, Tadeusz – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2004
The purpose of this article is to analyze the results of a study of the development of analogical reasoning in deaf children coming from two different linguistic environments (deaf children of deaf parents--sign language, deaf children of hearing parents--spoken language) and in hearing children, as well as to compare two groups of deaf children…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Cognitive Development, Deafness, Family Environment