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Objectives: This study aimed to demonstrate the nature and significance of the communication experiences encountered by adults with cochlear implants in the course of their social lives, and to explore effective communication strategies for the same. Methods: Data was collected via one-on-one in-depth interviews with five adults with cochlear implants, then analyzed through the Colaizzi phenomenological methodology. Results: First, the communication experiences of participants were categorized into the two themes of negative and positive experiences, with eight resultant sub-themes. The negative experiences consisted of “emotional distance,” “a lonely island in the crowd,” “difficulties that are not resolved,” and “facing communication barriers,” while positive experiences comprised “climbing the hill of maturity,” “gratitude toward good and beautiful encounters,” “the joy of managing to do my share,” and “the dreams one sets out to realize in their youth.” Next, effective communication strategies were categorized into the two themes of strategies for continuing communication and strategies for overcoming breakdowns in communication, with nine resultant sub-themes. Strategies for continuing communication included “structuralizing situations” and “enthusiastic attitudes,” while strategies for overcoming breakdowns in communication included “recepting through the use of tools” and “expressing oneself to the end.” Conclusion: The participants in this study face restricted situations due to their hearing impairments, but grow through dynamic interaction with society, and continuously employed effective communication strategies to respond efficiently to social situations. Principal factors to be considered and future service strategies for aiding unhindered communication for the hearing-impaired were discussed based on the results of the study.
Objectives: This study aimed to demonstrate the nature and significance of the communication experiences encountered by adults with cochlear implants in the course of their social lives, and to explore effective communication strategies for the same. Methods: Data was collected via one-on-one in-depth interviews with five adults with cochlear implants, then analyzed through the Colaizzi phenomenological methodology. Results: First, the communication experiences of participants were categorized into the two themes of negative and positive experiences, with eight resultant sub-themes. The negative experiences consisted of “emotional distance,” “a lonely island in the crowd,” “difficulties that are not resolved,” and “facing communication barriers,” while positive experiences comprised “climbing the hill of maturity,” “gratitude toward good and beautiful encounters,” “the joy of managing to do my share,” and “the dreams one sets out to realize in their youth.” Next, effective communication strategies were categorized into the two themes of strategies for continuing communication and strategies for overcoming breakdowns in communication, with nine resultant sub-themes. Strategies for continuing communication included “structuralizing situations” and “enthusiastic attitudes,” while strategies for overcoming breakdowns in communication included “recepting through the use of tools” and “expressing oneself to the end.” Conclusion: The participants in this study face restricted situations due to their hearing impairments, but grow through dynamic interaction with society, and continuously employed effective communication strategies to respond efficiently to social situations. Principal factors to be considered and future service strategies for aiding unhindered communication for the hearing-impaired were discussed based on the results of the study.
This study aims to explore specific life experiences and what it means to “live as a sibling of a disabled person”, by focusing on the brothers and sisters of persons with disabilities; this is a cohort that has been relatively marginalized in the field of welfare for the disabled. To this end, the author conducted 1:1 in-depth interviews with four adolescents who grew up with younger siblings who have developmental disabilities, and analyzed the meaning underlying their life experiences through phenomenological research methods. As a result, a total of five core themes of those life experiences were identified: (1) the birth of a disabled younger sibling, wherein their trials began; (2) surviving differentiation within the family; (3) ambivalence toward parents; (4) adolescence, with resurfaced psychological conflicts and relieving emotions; and (5) a future to be planned around a life of coexisting with disabled siblings. This study aims to provide basic data for social welfare intervention through an illuminating and deeper understanding of the lives of siblings of the developmentally disabled who require a high level of care.
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