Open AccessSPECIFIC FEATURES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION IN DEAF CHILDREN
Author(s) -
D. Georgieva,
Gencho Valchev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of cbu in social sciences ...
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2695-0723
pISSN - 2695-0715
DOI - 10.12955/pss.v1.51
Subject(s) - interpersonal communication , psychology , nonverbal communication , developmental psychology , test (biology) , interpersonal relationship , audiology , social psychology , medicine , paleontology , biology
Under certain conditions, associated with the presence of early and significant hearing loss, there are some peculiarities observed in children's interpersonal communication. Their knowledge can serve as a guide for overcoming difficulties and maximizing successful communication. The present study is dedicated to identifying the peculiarities of communicative behavior and the type of interpersonal relationships between children with hearing impairments integrated into mainstream schools. The experiment involved 40 children, divided into two groups: control group (hearing children) and experimental group (deaf children). The Diagnostic toolkit contains 3 methodologies: the Raven progressive matrices for determining the level of nonverbal intelligence; a test for evaluation of communicative and initiating abilities, the T. Leary's psycho-diagnostic methodology for establishing interpersonal relationships in the subjects studied. The results of the first test revealed that the intellectual profile of 7-9-year-old students was significantly different from that of their hearing peers. The second test also found differences between the hearing and the deaf, but these were not statistically significant. The Leary test clearly showed that in the process of interpersonal communication, deaf children tend to be authoritarian, selfish, aggressive and suspicious of relationships. At the same time, their hearing peers seek to form an altruistic type of personal relationships.