Growing up with a Cochlear Implant: Education, Vocation, and Affiliation

Autor/inn/en	Spencer, Linda J.; Tomblin, J. Bruce; Gantz, Bruce J.
Titel	Growing up with a Cochlear Implant: Education, Vocation, and Affiliation
Quelle	In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 17 (2012) 4, S.483-498 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-4159
DOI	10.1093/deafed/ens024
Schlagwörter	Assistive Technology; Deafness; Adults; Surveys; Educational Attainment; Employment; Quality of Life; Identification; Comparative Analysis; Age Differences; Mothers; Scores; Communication (Thought Transfer); Hearing (Physiology); Speech + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Dienstverhältnis; Lebensqualität; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Mother; Mutter; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Gehör; Hören; Speaking; Sprechen
Abstract	The long-term educational/vocational, affiliation, and quality-of-life outcomes of the first and second cohorts of children with bilateral, profound hearing loss who received cochlear implants under a large National Institutes of Health-funded study was investigated in 41 of 61 eligible participants. Educational and vocational outcomes were collected from user survey data. Affiliation and quality-of-life data were collected from the Satisfaction-with-Life scale and the Deaf Identity Scale. Qualitative results indicated that compared with their hearing, adult-age peers, this group obtained high educational achievement, and they reported a very high satisfaction of life. With respect to forming an identity in these first 2 cohorts of cochlear implant users, we found that most of the individuals endorsed a dual identity, which indicates they feel just as comfortable with Deaf individuals as they do with hearing individuals. Quantitative results revealed a significant relationship between ability to hear and ability to speak, in addition to consistency of device use. Additional relationships were found between mother's and the individual's educational statuses, hearing scores, and communication system used. Younger individuals scored higher on satisfaction-with-life measures, and they also tended to endorse a dual identity more often. Taken together, these findings diminish concerns that profoundly deaf individuals growing up with cochlear implants will become culturally bereft and unable to function in the hearing world. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10