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Entraînement auditif et musical chez l'enfant sourd profond : effets sur la perception auditive et effets de transferts
2012
This thesis focuses on the auditory training and auditory skill development of congenitally profoundly deaf children. It aims to evaluate, not only the effects of auditory training/auditory skill development on general auditory performances, but also the transfer effects on speech perception and development. An extended period of auditory deprivation leads to major difficulties in reception and speech production, cognitive difficulties, and also disrupts the maturation of central auditory pathways which limit the effects of hearing loss treatment in restoring sound transmission (cochlear implants or hearing aids). It is therefore necessary to teach children how to actively listen and to dev…
Benefit of an animated simulation device for learning the highway code for deaf candidates : behavioural and physiological evaluation
2021
In France, the law called “loi handicap”, adopted on February 11th 2005, aims to ensure that people with disabilities benefit from the same conditions of access as all French citizens. The driving licence, because of its contribution to mobility, represents one of the major levers of an individual's general accessibility. Its successful completion improves social and professional integration. However, according to a parliamentary report of 2005, the success rate of deaf candidates in the theoretical exam of the highway code, allowing access to the practical exam of the driving license, was lower than that of hearing people.This thesis focuses on one of the possible causes of these differenc…
Introduction. The value of accessibility in the cultural and creative industries: Translation-driven settings
2020
This study focuses on the relationship between translation, accessibility and the cultural creative industries, as well as on the different varieties of genres included in these industries as cultures of accessibility. The accessibility of CCI has grown exponentially in different parts of the globe and has increasingly become part of projects of significant importance in contemporary societies that rely on informational, global, and networked systems of communication, i.e., developed countries. CCI exist within public-domain areas and are stimulated by the critical rethinking of the means which can be used to support cultural development. CCI are in fact driven by structures of the knowledg…
An Ethnographic Study of Deaf Refugees Seeking Asylum in Finland
2019
Deaf asylum seekers are a marginalized group of people in refugee and forced migration studies. The aim of this paper is to explore and highlight the experiences of deaf asylum seekers in the asylum procedure in Finland. The data come from linguistic ethnographic methods, interviews, and ethnographic observation with 10 deaf asylum seekers. While living in the reception centers, the study participants have faced a range of linguistic and social challenges. The findings show that language barriers appeared from day one after the participants&rsquo
Socio-emotional Problems Experienced by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Ethiopia
2015
This study compares the socio-emotional problems experienced by deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students with those of hearing students in Ethiopia. The research involved a sample of 103 grade 4 students attending a special school for the deaf, a special class for the deaf and a regular school. Socio-emotional problems were measured using Goodman's self-report measure, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for children and adolescents. Participants were selected from seven towns in Ethiopia. The results show that, compared to the hearing sample, the DHH students experienced more severe socio-emotional problems across all dimensions, regardless of whether they were in special classes o…
Time reproduction of structured auditory events by deaf and hearing subjects
2009
Congenital deafness affects different aspects of information processing and time perception. In deafness the accuracy of duration judgments seems to be linked to differences in the use of conventional time units, applied strategy as well as cognitive processes such as attention or working memory (Kowalska & Szelag, 2006). The present experiment investigated the effect of different event structures on duration reproduction in deaf and normal hearing subjects. The accuracy and variability of performances were calculated respectively by means of the absolute error score and coefficient of variation of time reproductions. Results showed a global underestimation of durations for all subjects; mo…
Reading in students with deafness: An eye-movement research
2020
This thesis focused on describing the online reading pattern of deaf and hard of hearing students (DHH) and the factors that affect it. Previous studies have widely reported and described the difficulties that students with DHH demonstrate during reading. However, there are still some questions in which results do not converge (e.g., Do students with DHH ignore grammatical cues during sentence reading? Do they adapt their reading according to text demands?). Therefore, these questions remain open to new procedures that can disentangle or at least contribute to the understanding of DHH students' reading problems. So far, the vast majority of the studies have approached this issue by measurin…
Cognition in Interaction : Challenges in Assessing Persons with Sensory and Multiple disabilities
2021
This article reports a qualitative study of cognitive assessments of three teenagers with sensory and multiple disabilities, including moderate to profound developmental disability. The aim was to evaluate the possibilities for adapting standardized tests and the implementation of interactional partnership in assessment. Cognitive assessments were made with an individually-adapted psychological assessment tool, the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development. The assessment situations were video-recorded and analyzed based on sociocultural theories of early interaction, dynamic assessment, and the bodily-tactile modality of cognition. The results showed that the requirements for assessm…
Ohjaava opetuskeskustelu suomalaisella viittomakielellä : tapaustutkimus kuuron oppilaan matematiikan opetuksesta
2014
Suomalaisen viittomakielen pro gradu –työssäni tarkastelen kuuron oppilaan viittomakielistä opetusta vuorovaikutuksen näkökulmasta. Tutkimusaineisto koostuu kahdesta matematiikan yksilöopetustunnista. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on ollut selvittää, millaisia muotoja ohjaava opetuskeskustelu saa kuuron oppilaan suomalaisella viittomakielellä toteutetussa opetuksessa. Tapaustutkimuksen kautta yksilöidään ja luokitellaan myös viittomakielisen ohjaavan opetuskeskustelun osatekijöitä. Tutkimusaineiston analyysi perustuu Vygotskyn (1978) sosiokulttuuriseen teoriaan ja siihen liittyviin käsitteisiin oppimisen oikea-aikainen tukeminen ja lähikehityksen vyöhyke. Videotaltiointien analy…
The UNCRPD and Sign Language Peoples
2014
[Introduction] On 13 December 2006, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and its associated Optional Protocol, the first human rights treaty to be adopted in the 21st century. The UNCRPD opened for signature on 30 March 2007 and entered into force on 3 May 2008. The Convention has over 150 signatories and more than 140 State Parties have ratified it. The UNCRPD is a group-‐specific treaty in that it caters to a specific group of people: persons with disabilities1, a group of about 1 billion people worldwide (WHO 2011), often referred to as the world’s largest minority. Deaf people are included in the Conventio…