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The Burden of Sustaining Communication: Communication Breakdowns Experienced by Deaf Students and Their Communication Support Workers in a Further Education College
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Cristián Iturriaga – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
The educational inclusion of deaf students in England is usually interpreted as placement in mainstream settings alongside hearing students, creating unintended pressure for assimilation to the communicative needs of hearing people. In this context, it is deaf students and their communication support staff who are left to deal with communicative…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Inclusion, Deafness, Oral Communication Method
"Behind the Teacher's Back": An Ethnographic Study of Deaf People's Schooling Experiences in the Republic of Ireland
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O'Connell, Noel Patrick; Deegan, Jim – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
Historically, the valuing of deaf children's voices on their own schooling has been underrepresented in educational policies, curriculum frameworks and discursive practices and, in particular, in the debates and controversies surrounding oralism and Irish Sign Language in deaf education in Ireland. This article discusses children's everyday lived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Ethnography
Beliefs, Practices, and Expectations of Oral Teachers of the Deaf
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Brown, P. Margaret; Paatsch, Louise – Deafness and Education International, 2010
This study investigated the beliefs and practices of 28 teachers of the deaf about their practices. The teachers were all working in oral settings either as visiting teachers or teachers in a mainstream school facility supporting groups of students with hearing loss. Teachers who used an Auditory Verbal approach largely adopted a positivist…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Deafness, Oral Communication Method, Educational Practices
Two Nations Exchange Information on Mainstreaming.
Smith, Dorothy – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
The article compares approaches to mainstreaming of students with hearing impairments in Spain and the United States. Discussed are mainstreaming as a matter of law, the importance of deaf role models, school placement in the U.S., integration practices in Spain, and the prevalence of oralism in Spain. (DB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Spoken and Written Language Assessment of Orally Trained Children with Hearing Loss: Syntactic Structures and Deviations.
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Tur-Kaspa, Hana; Dromi, Esther – Volta Review, 1999
A language assessment procedure was used with spontaneous spoken and written language samples of 13 orally trained children with hearing loss in integrated classrooms in two Israeli elementary schools. Results revealed significant differences between spoken and written language samples of these children in various correct syntactic structures,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
A Survey of Graduates of an Australian Integrated Auditory/Oral Preschool. Part II: Academic Achievement, Utilization of Support Services, and Friendship Patterns.
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Roberts, Susan B.; Rickards, Field W. – Volta Review, 1994
A survey was conducted of 100 graduates (ages 7-17) of an auditory/oral Australian preschool for children with hearing impairments (92 integrated with hearing peers and 8 segregated). Most children perceived their academic progress to be average or above; nearly all received audiological support; over one-third received speech therapy and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Deafness, Foreign Countries
Academic Learning in an Integrated Setting for Hearing-Impaired Students--A Description of an Australian Unit's Efforts to Meet the Challenge.
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Walker, Lynette M. – Volta Review, 1993
An Australian oral/aural program for students with hearing impairments fosters independence and independent learning by teaching cognitive and metacognitive skills. Factors attributing to the program's success include careful planning for integration, a clear understanding of support teachers' roles, special programs to meet individual needs, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments, Hearing Therapy
A Survey of Graduates of an Australian Integrated Auditory/Oral Preschool. Part I: Amplification Usage, Communication Practices, and Speech Intelligibility.
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Roberts, Susan B.; Rickards, Field W. – Volta Review, 1994
A survey was conducted of 100 graduates (ages 7-17) of an auditory/oral preschool in Australia for children with hearing impairments, with 92 being integrated with hearing peers and 8 segregated. The majority of students reported that they used hearing aids consistently; used speech as their major mode of communication; and perceived themselves as…
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Deafness, Foreign Countries, Graduate Surveys