In Search of a New, Linguistically and Culturally Sensitive Paradigm in Deaf Education

Simms, Laurene; Thumann, Helen

doi:10.1353/aad.2007.0031

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“…Simms &Thumann (2007) noted that underprivileged children have not often been the target of general education research. As a result, this research tried to introduce those children for further study.…”

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Educational Video Games Enrich Underprivileged Children’s Social Skills in Saudi Arabia

Saud¹

2017

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The current study attempts to explore the effect of the educational video games on enriching the social skills of underprivileged children in Saudi Arabia. It compares the social skills of underprivileged children who do and do not have access to educational video games through IPads. To accomplish the goals of the study; twenty underprivileged kindergarten's children who do not have IPads aged five years old were chosen randomly from one of the public schools in Riyadh city (school 56 for girls) to participate in the study. Ten of them were given access for the first time to educational video games through using Android IPads to enrich their social skills. The other ten children were in the control group without an access to educational video games. The researcher downloaded ten educational video games on to the IPads, which are suitable for the sample's age, culture, and study purpose. Ten IPads were given to the ten underprivileged families whom their child is an experimental group's member in this study. The sampled children were required to play these educational games for two hours daily for three months at home and for one hour at school under the supervision of their parents and teachers. The researcher used the Child's Social Scale CSS (Abdul Magsood &Al-Sarsee,2007) as a pre-post measurement to assess the level of the underprivileged Children's Social Skills. Results showed that the underprivileged children become more sociable, saying goodbey, thank you,excuse me,sorry when apologising to others, following rules and appreciating each other. In light of the results of the research, the researcher recommended schools in Saudi Arabia to use videogames to improve children's social skills either rich or poor. In addition, she recommended the commercial companies of IPads to pay attention to the underprivileged children in the country through producing economical IPads with low prices to enable them to own their personal IPads which will enhance their social skills alongside rich children.

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Educational Video Games Enrich Underprivileged Children’s Social Skills in Saudi Arabia

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2017

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“…The purpose of this research was to demonstrate the effectiveness of Tablet devices on hearing-impaired children's social interaction. Simms and Thumann (2007) noted that www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 8, No.…”

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IPads Enhance Social Interaction Skills among Hearing-Impaired Children of Low Income Families in Saudi Arabia

Bahatheg¹

2015

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This research tries to investigate the technical contribution on improving the social interaction of hearing-impaired children from low income families in Saudi Arabia. It compares the social interaction skills of hearing-impaired children who do and do not have access to IPads. To achieve the goals of the study; seventeen children aged five-years-old were given access for the first time to iPads to enhance their social skills.The researcher downloaded 10 educational games on to the iPads and gave each family one iPad whom their child was required to play with the iPad for three hours daily. The researcher used the Child's Social Interaction Scale CSIS as a pre-or post-application measurement to assess the hearing-impaired children's social interaction skills.Results of the study showed that hearing-impaired children can make all behaviours that are essential to successful social interaction. Also, these children become more sociable, saying thank you, apologising to others, following rules and waiting for a turn. In light of the results, the researcher recommended commercial companies who create games for children to pay attention to hearing-impaired children and develop techniques to help them play with these games in order to develop their interaction social skills alongside normally hearing children.

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“…Teachers often have low expectations for deaf students (Simms & Thumann, 2007) and as all teachers know, students will "sink to the lowest level of expectation". As noted by Sternberg & Subotnik (2006) setting high expectations with a caring model allows the development of reasoning, resilience and responsibility.…”

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Teachers, Are They Really Needed?

Alomary¹,

Nunn²,

White³

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Beginning in the mid-20th century, traditional educational models were challenged by educational experts. The traditional model of instruction is what is known as teacher guided instruction or direct instruction. The current focus in education moved to student centered learning or problem based learning (PBL). Given these pedagogical discussions, Sugata Mitra asked the question, "Do we need teachers?" and developed the term Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLE) to describe self-directed learning. The idea behind a SOLE is independent learning among students as they work at their own pace, while satisfying their own goals and objectives. One doctoral level class, composed of deaf students, used this strategy for a beginning level course. Findings showed that students needed a bit more structure in the beginning of the course, but then they were able to direct their own learning in ways that went beyond the bounds of traditional learning. This strategy is suggested as a possible motivational one for deaf students who often employ more passive learning strategies.

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In Search of a New, Linguistically and Culturally Sensitive Paradigm in Deaf Education

Cited by 46 publications

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Educational Video Games Enrich Underprivileged Children’s Social Skills in Saudi Arabia

Educational Video Games Enrich Underprivileged Children’s Social Skills in Saudi Arabia

IPads Enhance Social Interaction Skills among Hearing-Impaired Children of Low Income Families in Saudi Arabia

Teachers, Are They Really Needed?

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