Inclusion Rating Scale Hard of Hearing Children

1. Inclusion Rating Scale Hard of Hearing Children Annemiek Voor in ‘t holt, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Rob de Lange Professorship of Deaf Studies Utrecht University of Applied Sciences

2. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Introduction Goal of research project • Enhance position of hearing impaired (HH) children in Dutch educational environment • Through: Development of Inclusion Ratingscale based on J.Richards (2003) ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

3. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Research • Interviews parents HH children, HH adults and peripatetic teachers (PT) • Literature review • Visit to Australia • Development of questionnaire • Survey amongst Peripatetic Services (PS) • Analyses of responses • Presenting results to PS ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

4. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Interviews mothers Importance ofawareness “Yeah uh, with D. the most important thing is that uhm, the directly involved people notice that he really is missing something. Because … it lookes like he always hears everything... But … it’s very tricky, if you talk with him alone he understands a lot … while in class he really misses a lot of the interaction….” ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

5. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Interviews mothers Teacher behaviour = Model behaviour “The teacher can do a lot of little things. Repeat the question of a child for example, uh, that’s very important. A teacher might also say occasionally, uhm … “Could you turn to D.?” And when a teacher just now and then says “Wait a moment, could you repeat that please?” or “I’ll write it on the blackboard”, it’s remarkable that children subconsiously copy this behaviour”. In that way the teacher provides a natural model. ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

6. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Results interviews ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt * Kreimeyer & Jamieson, 2010

7. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Results interviews & literature review translated to questionnaire “Being There is Not Enough: Inclusion is both Deaf and Hearing” (Komesaroff & McLean, 2006) ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

8. INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Results interviews & literature review translated to questionnaire ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

9. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS HH pupil in educational environment SCHOOL MANAGEMENT Teacher classmate classmate HOH PUPIL classmate classmate Peripatetic Teacher ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

10. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Introduction of environment scale into questionnaire Assessment evaluates pupil and environment • HH pupils’ progress compared to H classmates (as in CHAPS, Smoski et al., 1998) • Willingness to cope with hearing loss by environment - Class - Teacher - School management - Peripatetic teacher ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

11. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Coherent items rating scale • HH child • asks for repetition after noticing that something is not understood • H classmates • know something about hearing impairment • Teacher • creates a quiet listening environment in the classroom • is aware of the need for eye-contact in communication • paraphrases responses of other pupils during instructions and discussions • School • creates good acoustics in classrooms and other spaces ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

12. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Results: Pupil scale ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

13. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Results: Casus Casus 1 Boy, HH, 11 years old Casus 2 Boy, H, 11 years old Total Language Social B. Class B. Total Language Social B. Class B ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

14. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Results: Environment scale Teachers: “Awareness of impact of hearing loss is increased by answering questionnaire” ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

15. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS Conclusions • No correlation inclusion score / duration PS • Introduction of environmental scale does more justice to principles of inclusion and stimulates engagement of environment • Research group too small for firm conclusions • Promising results, further studies needed ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt

16. INTRODUCTION INTERVIEWS RATING SCALE CONCLUSIONS “Do justice to their talent …” ! Thank you ! annemiek.voorintholt@hu.nl ICED 2010 Inclusion Rating Scale HOH Children Annemiek Voor in 't holt