This work aims to study the relationship between psychopathology and deafness. These results show that the most frequent diagnosis among the deaf are disorders of mood and post-traumatic syndrome. Psychotic disorders and mental retardation, once widely diagnosed among deaf populations, are less frequent. The accuracy of these findings results from studies conducted by a team that is specialized...

This study investigated the expressed attitudes of deaf people in India toward career choices for deaf and hearing people. Deaf adults from Pune, India rated the suitability of 12 professions for deaf and hearing people and gave written comments on the suitability of any other professions they could list. The results, in general, were consistent with those of other studies in the United States,...

OBJECTIVE North American studies conclude that deaf children may have a 2-3 times greater risk of sexual abuse than hearing children. No comparative studies are available in the Nordic countries. The present study was initiated to estimate the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse among deaf children in Norway, describe the nature of the abuse, and to examine risk factors. METHOD A self-admini...

Two groups of deaf children, aged 8 and 14 years, were presented with a number of tasks designed to assess their reliance on phonological coding. Their performance was compared with that of hearing children of the same chronological age (CA) and reading age (RA). Performance on the first task, short-term recall of pictures, showed that the deaf children's spans were comparable to those of RA co...

Deaf Liberation Theology is a branch of theology that has been developed over the past twenty years, with the book Deaf Liberation Theology published by Ashgate in 2007 (Lewis 2007) as a focal point of this development. This article briefly looks at the roots of Deaf Liberation Theology in both the concept of Deaf people as an oppressed linguistic minority and the principles of Liberation theol...

Arguments supporting the integration of deaf pupils in mainstream schools are often based on possible cognitive gains. We suggest that integration should also be assessed considering its social consequences for pupils. If deaf pupils are rejected or feel isolated in mainstream schools, their education may ultimately suffer. We investigated the social adaptation of nine deaf pupils in two mainst...

objectives: increasingly people are using the internet to find information about medical and educational issues and one of the simplest ways to obtain information is internet. persian cued speech is a very new system to iranian families with deaf child and the professionals and a few educators have enough knowledge about it, so the purpose of this study was to introduce persian cued speech webs...

It is important to understand special education and the services being offered to individuals who are deaf in light of research conducted in Pakistan. A brief historical background of special education as well as the educational setting, curriculum and instructional approaches used for deaf students are explained. Moreover, the perception of Pakistani society about deaf people and their social ...