Turning the Tide
eBook - ePub

Turning the Tide

Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Turning the Tide

Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Our Research Process
  12. 2 Friendships and Social Access: Outside Looking In
  13. 3 The Struggle to Shape an Identity
  14. 4 K–12 Interpreters and Other Placement Issues
  15. 5 A System in Need of Reform
  16. 6 K–12 Interpreters and Mediated Education: More and Better Is Not Enough
  17. 7 Summer and Weekend Programs: If You Build It, They Will Come
  18. 8 Scholars, Parents, Advocates, and Allies: Working for Change
  19. 9 Turning the Tide: Making Life Better
  20. References
  21. Index 219