Deaf Parents as Sources of Positive Development and Resilience for Deaf Infants

Assessing a Video-Based Intervention to Promote Parent Communication Strategies with a Deaf Infant: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study

“…Specifically, the use of attention getting strategies, given that parents 6b and 8 increased use to redirect their child's attention. Participant 4 s decrease could be an outcome of stress due to difficulties eliciting her infant's attention, given the potential impact of stress on parental responsiveness [24]. These findings further emphasize the need for additional support when it comes to implementing the use of attention getting strategies.…”

“…Optimizing infant access to sound is critical to this goal but visual attention to communication is also important [20,21]. However, as supporting visual attention to communication is less intuitive for hearing parents [22][23][24], this group tend to make fewer attempts to elicit their infant's visual attention before communicating [25,26]. This could be particularly problematic when infants engage in joint attention (i.e., a state of mutual awareness of shared attention towards the same object or event that is an essential foundation for language acquisition) [27][28][29].…”

“…The intuitive behavior modifications of fluent signing deaf parents are well adapted to supporting deaf children's visual attention to communication [46][47][48][49][50], which is reflected in findings that deaf dyads spend more time engaged in joint attention than deaf infanthearing parent dyads [25,48,51], and parallel hearing dyads [52]. The communication strategies of fluent signing deaf parents could therefore be beneficial as intervention strategies for hearing parents of deaf infants [24]. Specifically, the present intervention included visual-tactile attention getting strategies such as waving in the child's line of vision, moving into their line of vision, and using touch (e.g., tapping), to elicit infant visual attention before communicating and to alert the infant to forthcoming communication [22,48,53].…”

Women and disability: The role of feminist psychology.

“…Most PWD grow up in families in which their disabilities are unique to them. One exception to this is the situation in which Deaf parents raise Deaf children (Koester & McCray, 2011). Rousso (2013) described her attempts as a child with cerebral palsy to "pass" as a "normal" person without a disability.…”