Toward an Equal Level of Educational Attainment Between Deaf and Hearing People in Sweden?

Rydberg, Emelie; Gellerstedt, Lotta Coniavitis; Danermark, Berth

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“…This national study found that a large disparity existed between deaf and hearing students regardless of educational placement. A similar disparity was found by Rydberg, Gellerstedt, and Danermark [190] across educational contexts. Svartholm [187], however, points to a different data set to argue for the positive impact of bilingual deaf education: the marked increase in the number of signing deaf adults attending Swedish universities.…”

Section: Is the Bimodal Bilingual Approach Effective?supporting

confidence: 82%

Deaf Children as ‘English Learners’: The Psycholinguistic Turn in Deaf Education

Howerton-Fox

Falk²

2019

Education Sciences

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The purpose of this literature review is to present the arguments in support of conceptualizing deaf children as ‘English Learners’, to explore the educational implications of such conceptualizations, and to suggest directions for future inquiry. Three ways of interpreting the label ‘English Learner’ in relationship to deaf children are explored: (1) as applied to deaf children whose native language is American Sign Language; (2) as applied to deaf children whose parents speak a language other than English; and (3) as applied to deaf children who have limited access to the spoken English used by their parents. Recent research from the fields of linguistics and neuroscience on the effects of language deprivation is presented and conceptualized within a framework that we refer to as the psycholinguistic turn in deaf education. The implications for developing the literacy skills of signing deaf children are explored, particularly around the theoretical construct of a ‘bridge’ between sign language proficiency and print-based literacy. Finally, promising directions for future inquiry are presented.

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Section: Is the Bimodal Bilingual Approach Effective?supporting

confidence: 82%

Deaf Children as ‘English Learners’: The Psycholinguistic Turn in Deaf Education

Howerton-Fox

Falk²

2019

Education Sciences

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“…For some of the blind children, the segregation started even earlier when they were sent to orphanages at the age of three to five. Schools for the deaf were based on the 'oral method' and sign language was prohibited, which is something that seriously hampered the children's theoretical learning (see also Rydberg, Gellerstedt, and Danemark 2009). Several of the deaf interviewees said that they did not understand anything in school before they learned some sign language in the schoolyard, where older classmates could explain what was going on.…”

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confidence: 99%

Limits to vocational inclusion?: Disability and the social democratic conception of labour

Lillestø

Sandvin

2012

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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The article discusses the difficulties faced by disabled people to enter the ordinary labour market. Despite increasing political emphasis on employment integration, and a gradual integration on most other areas of society, statistics indicate stagnation and even decline in labor market participation among disabled people in the majority of EOCD countries. Several studies also report that many disabled people experience a disinterest from employment authorities in helping them find employment. Drawing on a biographical study from Norway based on life-history interviews with 66 disabled people, the article discusses possible explanations to the meagre results of disability employment policies. The article suggests a number of feasible explanations: Parts of the explanation must be sought in the early institutionalization of waged labor. Defining the 'ability to work' was the primary criterion used to define who is disabled and, subsequently, entitled to public support. The article suggest that the increasing emphasis on workfare policies makes labor authorities inclined to focus more on the 'suspicious cases', i.e. those suspected unwilling to work, than on those who per definition is excerpted from the duty of work.

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“…With respect to education, it is known that deaf people in general have a lower level of educational attainment than hearing people in several countries (Anon 2006; Barnartt and Christiansen 1996;MacLeod-Gallinger 1992;Rydberg, Coniavitis Gellerstedt, and Danermark 2009). Higher education is generally demonstrated to have a positive effect on employment (Anon 2006;Welsh and Foster 1991;Welsh and MacLeod-Gallinger 1992;Winn 2007).…”

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Deaf people's employment and workplaces – similarities and differences in comparison with a reference population

Rydberg

Gellerstedt

Danermark

2011

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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This study aims to describe and analyze the characteristics of deaf people in employment and their workplaces in Sweden. A population of 2144 people born 1941Á80 who attended a school for the deaf was compared to 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total Swedish population born 1941Á80. Data on these persons consisted of registered information from the year 2005. Results showed that there are differences between the workplaces of people in the deaf and the reference population. For instance, deaf people were more commonly employed in the public sector. People in employment showed similar findings in both populations concerning sex, age and level of educational attainment: the higher the level of educational attainment, the higher the employment rate. However, deaf people more often had a higher level of educational attainment than was required for their occupation, which is an indication of discrimination in the labour market.

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Toward an Equal Level of Educational Attainment Between Deaf and Hearing People in Sweden?

Cited by 39 publications

References 4 publications

Deaf Children as ‘English Learners’: The Psycholinguistic Turn in Deaf Education

Deaf Children as ‘English Learners’: The Psycholinguistic Turn in Deaf Education

Limits to vocational inclusion?: Disability and the social democratic conception of labour

Deaf people's employment and workplaces – similarities and differences in comparison with a reference population

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