Louise Paatsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 78380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Paatsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Paatsch |
| SIGNATURE | PAATSCH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3978-9603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Primary Caregiving System
Developing teacher understandings of digital play in the early years of schooling
Digital play is a pedagogical construct used to explain children’s engagement with digital technologies. Much of the digital play literature draws upon theories of play derived from a time of pre-digitality in which play is understood as a central mode of learning. A more recent, but under-used, theoretical construct in digital play literature is that of technical code from critical constructivism. Technical code explains how alternative knowledg…
Children's engagement with digital technology in educational spaces
Children's engagement in play and learning is becoming increasingly complex as educational spaces integrate digital experiences. While engagement is often seen as a multifaceted construct, there is often no clear and generally accepted definition or understanding of what is meant when the term ‘engagement’ is used. This scoping review synthesised the ways in which engagement has been conceptualised within young children's digital experiences in e…
Turning points for children experiencing vulnerabilities
Exploring children’s meaning-making as they interact with digital artworks through play at a museum exhibition
Many museums have begun to integrate digital technologies as a way of providing opportunities for children to play, explore, and make meaning of artworks. However, little is known about the specific ways children interact with digital artworks in museum spaces. This paper presents findings from a study that explored young children’s interactions with digital artworks at the Beings by Universal Everything exhibition, held at ACMI (formerly known a…
Understanding the talk patterns in secondary school classrooms
There is a growing body of literature which highlights the relationship between classroom talk and learning.However, despite the growing acceptance of the link between talk and student learning, talk remains an undervalued pedagogical practice by many teachers.This is particularly evident in secondary school classrooms.This paper presents the findings of a research project examining the talk patterns of seven secondary school teachers from a rang…
Digital technology use and well-being in young children
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children
The possibilities and challenges of digital technologies for young children are widely documented. However, parental guidelines place greater emphasis upon potential harms, advocating that parents limit their children’s screen time, or advise that parents simply read digital texts as they would a printed text. Our study investigated 22 Australian parents’ perspectives of their 2–3-year-old child’s experiences with digital devices and their views …
Child-Centred Teaching
Research has shown that schoolteachers often prepare children for success in standardized reading assessments by ‘teaching to the test.’ Concurrently, research exploring children’s emergent literacies and ‘school readiness’ has shown that early childhood teachers often feel pressured to ‘prepare’ children for school and may do so by focusing on print-related literacies, to the detriment of earlier stages of the oral-to-print continuum. This raise…
Assessing Pragmatic Skills Using Checklists with Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Communicative Competence of Oral Deaf Children While Explaining Game Rules
Classrooms are characterized by interactions in a range of genres. The concise language required by expository interactions can be challenging for children who have atypical language, including children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). This study compared the way three groups of upper primary school students (aged 8-13 years) taught a peer to play a new unfamiliar board game: (a) DHH "experts" teaching a "novice" hearing peer; (b) hearing …
Rethinking inequalities between deindustrialisation, schools and educational research in Geelong
Inequalities have historically been conceptualised and empirically explored with primary reference to the human. Both measurements of educational inequalities through the production of data about students, teachers and schools, and ethnographic explorations of inequalities in the spoken accounts of human actors in schools can elide affective histories and material geologies of the earth that entwine with societal inequalities, and political quest…
Some trouble with repair
This article investigates differences in pragmatic abilities between children who have cochlear implants and their hearing peers. Recordings of 10-minute conversations between 10 children with cochlear implants (children with age-equivalent language scores) and a hearing peer were transcribed. Conversation analysis provides insights into interactional troubles not evident in broader measures of number of turns, requests for clarification, topic i…
A Comparison of Pragmatic Abilities of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Their Hearing Peers
Pragmatic skills are the key to a satisfying and sustained conversation. Such conversation is critical for the development of meaningful friendships. Previous studies have investigated the conversational skills of deaf children while interacting with adults or when interacting with peers in structured referential tasks. There are few published studies that have compared the pragmatic skills of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) in fr…
The Communication Skills Used by Deaf Children and Their Hearing Peers in a Question-and-Answer Game Context
Communication is frequently characterized by a sequence of questions and answers. Little is known about how well students who are deaf or hard of hearing (deaf/HH) understand their hearing classmates in the context of an inclusive setting. This study explored the communication skills used by deaf/HH children when asking and answering questions in a "trivia" game with their hearing peers. Thirty-four children with normal hearing and 34 children wi…
The Effects of Speech Production and Vocabulary Training on Different Components of Spoken Language Performance
A group of 21 hard-of-hearing and deaf children attending primary school were trained by their teachers on the production of selected consonants and on the meanings of selected words. Speech production, vocabulary knowledge, reading aloud, and speech perception measures were obtained before and after each type of training. The speech production training produced a small but significant improvement in the percentage of consonants correctly produce…
Effects of Articulation Training on the Production of Trained and Untrained Phonemes in Conversations and Formal Tests
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of articulation training for specific phonemes on the production of phonemes in conversational language samples, the 108 Single Word Articulation Test (Paatsch, 1997), and the Phonetic Level Evaluation (Ling, 1976). Speech production skills of 12 hearing-impaired children were assessed using these evaluation tools pre- and posttraining. A total of six phonemes were selected for each child…
Rethinking inequalities between deindustrialisation, schools and educational research in Geelong
Inequalities have historically been conceptualised and empirically explored with primary reference to the human. Both measurements of educational inequalities through the production of data about students, teachers and schools, and ethnographic explorations of inequalities in the spoken accounts of human actors in schools can elide affective histories and material geologies of the earth that entwine with societal inequalities, and political quest…
Some trouble with repair
This article investigates differences in pragmatic abilities between children who have cochlear implants and their hearing peers. Recordings of 10-minute conversations between 10 children with cochlear implants (children with age-equivalent language scores) and a hearing peer were transcribed. Conversation analysis provides insights into interactional troubles not evident in broader measures of number of turns, requests for clarification, topic i…
Effects of Articulation Training on the Production of Trained and Untrained Phonemes in Conversations and Formal Tests
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of articulation training for specific phonemes on the production of phonemes in conversational language samples, the 108 Single Word Articulation Test (Paatsch, 1997), and the Phonetic Level Evaluation (Ling, 1976). Speech production skills of 12 hearing-impaired children were assessed using these evaluation tools pre- and posttraining. A total of six phonemes were selected for each child…
The Effects of Speech Production and Vocabulary Training on Different Components of Spoken Language Performance
A group of 21 hard-of-hearing and deaf children attending primary school were trained by their teachers on the production of selected consonants and on the meanings of selected words. Speech production, vocabulary knowledge, reading aloud, and speech perception measures were obtained before and after each type of training. The speech production training produced a small but significant improvement in the percentage of consonants correctly produce…
The Communication Skills Used by Deaf Children and Their Hearing Peers in a Question-and-Answer Game Context
Communication is frequently characterized by a sequence of questions and answers. Little is known about how well students who are deaf or hard of hearing (deaf/HH) understand their hearing classmates in the context of an inclusive setting. This study explored the communication skills used by deaf/HH children when asking and answering questions in a "trivia" game with their hearing peers. Thirty-four children with normal hearing and 34 children wi…
A Comparison of Pragmatic Abilities of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Their Hearing Peers
Pragmatic skills are the key to a satisfying and sustained conversation. Such conversation is critical for the development of meaningful friendships. Previous studies have investigated the conversational skills of deaf children while interacting with adults or when interacting with peers in structured referential tasks. There are few published studies that have compared the pragmatic skills of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) in fr…
Some trouble with repair
This article investigates differences in pragmatic abilities between children who have cochlear implants and their hearing peers. Recordings of 10-minute conversations between 10 children with cochlear implants (children with age-equivalent language scores) and a hearing peer were transcribed. Conversation analysis provides insights into interactional troubles not evident in broader measures of number of turns, requests for clarification, topic i…
Communicative Competence of Oral Deaf Children While Explaining Game Rules
Classrooms are characterized by interactions in a range of genres. The concise language required by expository interactions can be challenging for children who have atypical language, including children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). This study compared the way three groups of upper primary school students (aged 8-13 years) taught a peer to play a new unfamiliar board game: (a) DHH "experts" teaching a "novice" hearing peer; (b) hearing …
Rethinking inequalities between deindustrialisation, schools and educational research in Geelong
Inequalities have historically been conceptualised and empirically explored with primary reference to the human. Both measurements of educational inequalities through the production of data about students, teachers and schools, and ethnographic explorations of inequalities in the spoken accounts of human actors in schools can elide affective histories and material geologies of the earth that entwine with societal inequalities, and political quest…
Assessing Pragmatic Skills Using Checklists with Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Child-Centred Teaching
Research has shown that schoolteachers often prepare children for success in standardized reading assessments by ‘teaching to the test.’ Concurrently, research exploring children’s emergent literacies and ‘school readiness’ has shown that early childhood teachers often feel pressured to ‘prepare’ children for school and may do so by focusing on print-related literacies, to the detriment of earlier stages of the oral-to-print continuum. This raise…
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children
The possibilities and challenges of digital technologies for young children are widely documented. However, parental guidelines place greater emphasis upon potential harms, advocating that parents limit their children’s screen time, or advise that parents simply read digital texts as they would a printed text. Our study investigated 22 Australian parents’ perspectives of their 2–3-year-old child’s experiences with digital devices and their views …
Exploring children’s meaning-making as they interact with digital artworks through play at a museum exhibition
Many museums have begun to integrate digital technologies as a way of providing opportunities for children to play, explore, and make meaning of artworks. However, little is known about the specific ways children interact with digital artworks in museum spaces. This paper presents findings from a study that explored young children’s interactions with digital artworks at the Beings by Universal Everything exhibition, held at ACMI (formerly known a…
Understanding the talk patterns in secondary school classrooms
There is a growing body of literature which highlights the relationship between classroom talk and learning.However, despite the growing acceptance of the link between talk and student learning, talk remains an undervalued pedagogical practice by many teachers.This is particularly evident in secondary school classrooms.This paper presents the findings of a research project examining the talk patterns of seven secondary school teachers from a rang…
Digital technology use and well-being in young children
Primary Caregiving System
Developing teacher understandings of digital play in the early years of schooling
Digital play is a pedagogical construct used to explain children’s engagement with digital technologies. Much of the digital play literature draws upon theories of play derived from a time of pre-digitality in which play is understood as a central mode of learning. A more recent, but under-used, theoretical construct in digital play literature is that of technical code from critical constructivism. Technical code explains how alternative knowledg…
Children's engagement with digital technology in educational spaces
Children's engagement in play and learning is becoming increasingly complex as educational spaces integrate digital experiences. While engagement is often seen as a multifaceted construct, there is often no clear and generally accepted definition or understanding of what is meant when the term ‘engagement’ is used. This scoping review synthesised the ways in which engagement has been conceptualised within young children's digital experiences in e…
Turning points for children experiencing vulnerabilities
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (5 works) · Audiology (4 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)