Turning the Tide: Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren - Couverture souple

Oliva, Gina A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 156368599X ISBN 13 : 9781563685996

Editeur : Gallaudet University Press,U.S., 2014

Synopsis

Both Gina A. Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle know what it is like to be the only deaf student in a mainstream school. Though they became successful educators, they recognize the need to research the same isolation experienced by other deaf and hard of hearing persons. In this way, they hope to improve education for current and future deaf students. Their efforts have culminated in Turning the Tide: Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren.

Turning the Tide presents a qualitative study of deaf and hard of hearing students who attended mainstream schools. The authors conducted three focus groups in different regions in the country, enlisting six to eight participants with diverse backgrounds for each session. They also gathered information from 113 online respondents who answered the same questions used in the focus groups. The respondents discussed many issues, including the difficulties of finding friends and social access, the struggle to establish an identity, the challenges of K-12 interpreting and class placement, and the vast potential of summer and weekend programs for deaf students. Their empowering stories clearly demonstrate that no deaf or hard of hearing student should be educated alone. The authors also elicited comments on other changes that parents, advocates, and other allies could work toward to improve further the educational environment of deaf children.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Retired from a thirty-seven-year career at Gallaudet University, Gina A. Oliva is enjoying life in historic Old Greenbelt, Maryland, with her husband, Joe, and their cat, Noelle. She plays pickleball, rides her bike, walks around the neighborhood with Noelle (no leash!) and sings/signs fun songs with a local Ukelele group. She continues to support summer camps for deaf kiddos with both her money and her time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 156368599X
• ISBN 13: 9781563685996
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible