The Impact of Maternal Deafness on Cradling Laterality with Deaf and Hearing Infants

Autor/inn/en	Sieratzki, Jechil S.; Woll, Bencie
Titel	The Impact of Maternal Deafness on Cradling Laterality with Deaf and Hearing Infants
Quelle	In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 9 (2004) 4, S.387-394 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-4159
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Deafness; Parent Child Relationship; Parenting Styles; Attachment Behavior; Toddlers; Behavior Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind
Abstract	A recent article in the "Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education" (Leigh, Brice, & Meadow-Orlans, 2004) explored attachment between deaf mothers and their 18-month-old children and reported relationship patterns similar to those for hearing dyads. The study reported here explores a marker of early mother-child relationships: cradling laterality. Results indicated that, overall, the cradling bias of deaf mothers is similar to that of hearing mothers, but that there are significant differences among deaf mothers related to the hearing status of their own parents and, in a complex way, to the hearing status of their children. Deaf mothers of deaf parents showed a strong leftward cradling bias with both hearing and deaf children, whereas deaf mothers of hearing parents showed a leftward cradling bias with hearing children and a rightward cradling bias with deaf children. Possible explanations for these patterns of behavior are discussed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10