Beschreibung:
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The authors compared evaluations by parents and teachers of the
communicative abilities of deaf children. Such comparisons between
parents' and professionals' assessments of the language development
of children who are deaf can provide useful information on which to
base ecologically valid intervention approaches. A secondary interest
of the authors was to investigate the possible influences on language
development of gender, the presence or absence of cochlear implantation,
and communication modality (i.e., auditory-verbal or bilingual). The
study included the mothers and teachers of 14 deaf children educated
in auditory-verbal or bilingual programs. Two scales from a survey
instrument, Profiles of the Hearing Impaired (Webster & Webster,
1995), were used. No significant differences between the teachers'
and parents' evaluations were found. Gender, cochlear implantation,
and communication modality were found to have no significant effect on
the evaluations.
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