Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 9:1 Winter 2004
(Wallis, Musselman, MacKay)
Hearing Mothers and Their Deaf Children: The Relationship between
Early, Ongoing Mode Match and Subsequent Mental Health Functioning in
Adolescence
DID YOU KNOW.....
In the few studies that have been conducted, researchers have typically
found that deaf adolescents have more mental health difficulties than
their hearing peers and that, within the deaf groups, those who use
spoken language have better mental health functioning than those who use
sign language.
This study investigated the hypotheses that mental health functioning in
adolescence is related to an early and consistent mode match between
mother and child rather than to the child's use of speech or sign
itself.
Using a large existing 15-year longitudinal database on children and
adolescents with severe and profound deafness, 57 adolescents of hearing
parents were identified for whom data on language experience (the
child's and the mother's) and mental health functioning (from a
culturally and linguistically adapted form of the Achenbach Youth Self
Report) was available. Three groups were identified: auditory/oral
(A/O), sign match (SM), and sign mismatch (SMM).
As hypothesized, no significant difference in mental health functioning
was found between the A/O and SM groups, but a significant difference
was found favoring a combined A/O and SM group over the SMM group.
These results support the notion of the importance of an early and
consistent mode match between deaf children and hearing mothers,
regardless of communication modality.
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