Family History: Deaf parents and Hearing children –How do they communicate each other at home?
Location
1054
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2019
End Date
January 2019
Abstract
I have a student whose father is a CODA (children of deaf adults). So, her grandparents are deaf and the last generation with pure oral education. They went to the school for the deaf in Niigata, Japan between the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, the school for the deaf in Japan completely eliminated teaching sign language in the curriculum. My student, who is hearing, was interested in her specific situation and wanted to research about her grandparents and their relationship with their hearing children. I encouraged her to study the subject as a graduation thesis. Her research questions were following these; 1) to understand how they communicate each other at home, 2) to find out how their children learn speech communication enough to live in the hearing community. Then, she did a 2-hour interview with her grandparents, her father, and her aunt. My student and I analyzed the transcription together. My student decided to describe this family from the children’s point of view in her thesis. This time, I wanted to combine the information from both her grandparents’ and their children’s point of view and the history of deaf education.
Keywords
deaf education, family history, pure oral education, micro-ethnography
Family History: Deaf parents and Hearing children –How do they communicate each other at home?
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I have a student whose father is a CODA (children of deaf adults). So, her grandparents are deaf and the last generation with pure oral education. They went to the school for the deaf in Niigata, Japan between the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, the school for the deaf in Japan completely eliminated teaching sign language in the curriculum. My student, who is hearing, was interested in her specific situation and wanted to research about her grandparents and their relationship with their hearing children. I encouraged her to study the subject as a graduation thesis. Her research questions were following these; 1) to understand how they communicate each other at home, 2) to find out how their children learn speech communication enough to live in the hearing community. Then, she did a 2-hour interview with her grandparents, her father, and her aunt. My student and I analyzed the transcription together. My student decided to describe this family from the children’s point of view in her thesis. This time, I wanted to combine the information from both her grandparents’ and their children’s point of view and the history of deaf education.
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