Des Power
Biographic Data
| ID | 6192034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Des Power |
| GIVEN NAMES | Des |
| FAMILY NAME | Power |
| SIGNATURE | DES POWER |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Characteristics and Extent of Participation of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in Regular Classes in Australian Schools
A national randomly selected survey of a sample of deaf and hard-of-hearing students included in regular classes from kindergarten to high school in Australian preschools and schools was conducted via a questionnaire to itinerant teachers working with such students. This article reports the analysis of a questionnaire that surveyed the demographic characteristics of such students and a set of characteristics of their behavior in their placement i…
Principles and Practices of Literacy Development for Deaf Learners
Since the very beginning of formal approaches to deaf education, the development of literacy has been a priority issue. The history of educational initiatives in this area is entwined with the history of prevailing attitudes and practices toward the impact of deafness on the development of deaf children more generally. In particular, arguments about whether a visual input (reading) can take the place of a diminished auditory input and whether edu…
Informed Parental Consent for Cochlear Implantation of Young Deaf Children
This paper examines the social parameters surrounding the management of informed consent procedures for the parents of young deaf children for the surgical fitting of a cochlear implant (‘bionic ear’) to their child. Although most observers of this remarkable and well publicised medical development only see benefits in its use, the authors examine the nature of the conflict which has emerged between medical and media portrayals of the ‘miracle ’ …
Maternal control over conversations with hearing and deaf infants and young children
Mothers talking with their hearing or deaf children aged one to five years were compared on measures of maternal control over conversations and child response to different levels of such control. Groups were matched separately on age and expressive language ability. Maternal input depended upon children's linguistic receptive capacity rather than age or cognitive level, confirming a multi-factor theory of control of maternal input to language lea…
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Maternal control over conversations with hearing and deaf infants and young children
Mothers talking with their hearing or deaf children aged one to five years were compared on measures of maternal control over conversations and child response to different levels of such control. Groups were matched separately on age and expressive language ability. Maternal input depended upon children's linguistic receptive capacity rather than age or cognitive level, confirming a multi-factor theory of control of maternal input to language lea…
Principles and Practices of Literacy Development for Deaf Learners
Since the very beginning of formal approaches to deaf education, the development of literacy has been a priority issue. The history of educational initiatives in this area is entwined with the history of prevailing attitudes and practices toward the impact of deafness on the development of deaf children more generally. In particular, arguments about whether a visual input (reading) can take the place of a diminished auditory input and whether edu…
Informed Parental Consent for Cochlear Implantation of Young Deaf Children
This paper examines the social parameters surrounding the management of informed consent procedures for the parents of young deaf children for the surgical fitting of a cochlear implant (‘bionic ear’) to their child. Although most observers of this remarkable and well publicised medical development only see benefits in its use, the authors examine the nature of the conflict which has emerged between medical and media portrayals of the ‘miracle ’ …
The Characteristics and Extent of Participation of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in Regular Classes in Australian Schools
A national randomly selected survey of a sample of deaf and hard-of-hearing students included in regular classes from kindergarten to high school in Australian preschools and schools was conducted via a questionnaire to itinerant teachers working with such students. This article reports the analysis of a questionnaire that surveyed the demographic characteristics of such students and a set of characteristics of their behavior in their placement i…
Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (3 works) · Audiology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 work) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 work) · Citizen journalism (1 work)