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Navigating Two Cultures: Deaf Children, Self-Esteem, and Parents' Communication Patterns.
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Desselle, Debra D.; Pearlmutter, Lynn – Social Work in Education, 1997
Examines the effect that hearing parents' communication methods have on the self-esteem of their deaf children. Results indicate that adolescents whose parents used total communication (speech, finger spelling, and sign language) had higher self-esteem scores than adolescents whose parents used speech only. Makes recommendations for school social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Interpreting, Deafness