Mother father deaf: The heritage of difference

Preston, Paul

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(94)00357-y

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“…Positive aspects of this family situation are also reported. Many children of hearing adults (CODAS) report pride in their early independence and in their interpreting skills, as well as a deep appreciation of Deaf culture and the Deaf community (Hoheister, 1985;Preston, 1995).…”

Section: Deaf Mothers Hearing Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maternal Sensitivity and the Visual Attentiveness of Children Who Are Deaf

Meadow-Orlans

Spencer

1996

Early Dev. Parent.

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Maternal sensitivity may be even more important for the development of deaf infants' social and cognitive competence than previous research has shown it to be for hearing children. We report ratings of mothers' sensitivity and infants' time in coordinated joint attention (CJA) during play interactions videotaped in a laboratory at 9,12 and 18 months. Participants include 80 dyads in four groups: two matched for hearing status (Deaf or Hearing mothers with deaf or hearing babies), two unmatched for hearing status (Deaf mothershearing babies and Hearing motherddeaf babies). Mothers in matched dyads were rated more sensitive than mothets in unmatched dyads. Deaf infants with Deaf mothers showed more time in CJA compared to infants in unmatched dyads. However, significant correlations of sensitivity and attention were found only for the two unmatched hearing status groups at 18 months. These results are discussed in terms of dyadic hearing status differences, intuitive parenting and developmental stage. 019% by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Early Dev. Parent. 5: 213-223, 1996 Key words: sensitivity; attention; deafness; hearing impairment In our culture, it is theoretically assumed that 'sensitive' parents attend to both the social and the cognitive needs of their children; that they provide meaning as well as enjoyment, in environments

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Section: Deaf Mothers Hearing Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maternal Sensitivity and the Visual Attentiveness of Children Who Are Deaf

Meadow-Orlans

Spencer

1996

Early Dev. Parent.

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“…Research on sign language acquisition in codas is scarce (Hadjikakou et al 2009;Preston 1995Preston , 1996Singleton and Tittle 2000). Several studies focus on lexical development, with inconclusive results, ranging from an age-appropriate (Brackenbury, Ryan, and Messenheimer 2005;Griffith 1985) to a delayed acquisition of vocabulary in codas (Petitto et al 2001;Prinz and Prinz 1979).…”

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confidence: 97%

Bimodal bilingual language development of hearing children of deaf parents

Hofmann

Chilla

2014

European Journal of Special Needs Education

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Adopting a bimodal bilingual language acquisition model, this qualitative case study is the first in Germany to investigate the spoken and sign language development of hearing children of deaf adults (codas). The spoken language competence of six codas within the age range of 3;10 to 6;4 is assessed by a series of standardised tests (SETK 3-5, TROG-D, PDSS). Additionally, a language assessment tool designed specifically for hearing bilingual children named HAVAS 5 is employed to measure both the children's spoken and sign language abilities. A heterogeneous picture emerges: all codas show abilities equal to those of monomodal monolingual children in their age range with regard to German sentence structure and verb inflection and an extensive receptive vocabulary, but deviations from the age norm are observed for the production of verbs and prepositions. Furthermore, three codas show below average T-values in some grammatical subtests. Overall, the findings suggest that at least some codas may acquire both of their languages (i.e. spoken and signed German) simultaneously. However, our study also indicates that the spoken language development of some codas as well as the acquisition context of this minority group strongly resembles a form of successive language acquisition that is known from children who acquire German as an early second language in a migration background.

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“…These factors have important implications in the psychological development of deaf children's relationships with their hearing parents. Many deaf children describe relating to their hearing parents in ways that are different than hearing children of hearing parents (Preston, 1995).…”

Section: Interpersonal: the Deaf Person Is Usually A Visual Minority mentioning

confidence: 99%