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THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF DEAF AND PARTIALLY DEAF CHILDREN
Author(s) -
BOWYER L. R.,
GILLIES J.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1972.tb00724.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , coping (psychology) , corollary , social emotional learning , audiology , clinical psychology , medicine , mathematics , pure mathematics
S ummary . The hypothesis was investigated that partially deaf children have more social‐emotional problems than severely deaf children, with the corollary that the policy of placing partially deaf children in ordinary schools might need to be reconsidered. 140 hearing impaired children were assessed for emotional adjustment by projective techniques and for social behaviour by teachers’ ratings. No significant differences were found between the severely and the partially deaf. The coping of 40 partially deaf children in ordinary schools was studied in detail, with the conclusion that they were able to hold their own with hearing children when regular contact with specialist staff was maintained.