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No Longer Deaf to their Needs
Author(s) -
Flaxbeard Richard,
Toomey Wendy
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8578.1987.tb00298.x
Subject(s) - borough , psychology , principal (computer security) , pedagogy , deaf education , medical education , developmental psychology , sign language , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , computer science , operating system
The difficulties which may be experienced by the hearing children of deaf parents as they approach puberty are not often discussed in print although, for instance, the Open University course E241 (1982) does include a case study on such a family. The following description of a group of such children and the experimental help they received is given by Richard Flaxbeard, formerly senior educational psychologist, Bedfordshire County Council, now principal educational psychologist with the London Borough of Barnet, and by Wendy Toomey, senior social worker for the deaf, Bedfordshire. It may alert readers to the potential problems faced by hearing children of deaf parents and to possible ways of responding.