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Kusters, Annelies; De Meulder, Maartje; Napier, Jemina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Most FLP research focuses on intrafamily communication (1FLP) and how this is impacted by larger contexts. But what happens when different multilingual families interact intensively on a daily basis? This article analyses language use during a holiday in India in and between four deaf-hearing befriended families, and how this evolved over the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Travel, Multilingualism, Language Usage
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Dammeyer, Jesper; Chapman, Madeleine; Marschark, Marc – American Annals of the Deaf, 2018
Pediatric cochlear implantation has successfully provided many congenitally deaf children the opportunity to learn to hear and speak. However, outcomes are mostly assessed through formal audiological testing or by gathering perspectives of parents and teachers rather than the children themselves. Sixty-five children with cochlear implants (CIs)…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Early Adolescents
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Dammeyer, Jesper; Marschark, Marc – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
In Scandinavia and some other countries, a bilingual-bicultural approach to deaf education was celebrated in national programs from the mid-1980s until the broad popularity of cochlear implantation in middle 2000s created a shift back to an emphasis on spoken language for many deaf children. At the same time, only a few studies evaluated the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Deafness, Adults, Bilingual Education
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Dammeyer, Jesper – Deafness and Education International, 2014
Research has shown that many deaf students do not develop age-appropriate reading and writing abilities. This study evaluates the literacy skills of deaf students, hard of hearing students, and students with cochlear implants in bilingual/bicultural schools in Denmark. The results show that 45 per cent of the students did not have any reading and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Literacy, Partial Hearing
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Davies, Shawn Neal – Sign Language Studies, 1991
Reports on a four-month study of deaf education programs conducted in Sweden and Denmark in March of 1990, and discusses three aspects of language learning involving deaf children's learning sign language as a first language, Swedish as a second language, and hearing parents' and teachers' learning of Swedish Sign Language. (14 references)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Children, Deafness, Foreign Countries