TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceptions of communication choice and usage among African American hearing parents
T2 - Afrocentric cultural implications for African American deaf and hard of hearing children
AU - Borum, Valerie
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - IN A QUALITATIVE STUDY employing an exploratory design, the researcher explored the perceptions of communication choice and usage among 14 African American hearing parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. Semistructured, in-depth thematic interviews were used with a modified grounded-theory approach in which themes were analyzed and coded. Four thematic challenges and opportunities related to communication choice and usage were found: (a) oral tradition-nommo, (b) sign and oral-diunital, (c) literacy, and (d) racial/ethnic cultural socialization. Afrocentric implications for deaf and hard of hearing children are explored based on research observations pertaining to the significance of the oral tradition in African American culture and the socialization of African American deaf and hard of hearing children in the context of African American hearing families.
AB - IN A QUALITATIVE STUDY employing an exploratory design, the researcher explored the perceptions of communication choice and usage among 14 African American hearing parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. Semistructured, in-depth thematic interviews were used with a modified grounded-theory approach in which themes were analyzed and coded. Four thematic challenges and opportunities related to communication choice and usage were found: (a) oral tradition-nommo, (b) sign and oral-diunital, (c) literacy, and (d) racial/ethnic cultural socialization. Afrocentric implications for deaf and hard of hearing children are explored based on research observations pertaining to the significance of the oral tradition in African American culture and the socialization of African American deaf and hard of hearing children in the context of African American hearing families.
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U2 - 10.1353/aad.2012.1606
DO - 10.1353/aad.2012.1606
M3 - Article
C2 - 22792848
AN - SCOPUS:84860439435
SN - 0002-726X
VL - 157
SP - 7
EP - 15
JO - American Annals of the Deaf
JF - American Annals of the Deaf
IS - 1
ER -