Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the 1995 edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Handicap of Deafness
- 2 The Deaf Child at Play
- 3 Day-to-Day Living
- 4 Discipline and Punishment
- 5 Learning to Communicate: Equipment
- 6 Learning to Communicate: Education
- 7 Coming to Terms with Deafness
- 8 Family Life with a Deaf Child
- 9 The Family and the Community
- 10 Overview
- Appendix I The Interview Schedule
- Appendix II The Interview Situation: Advantages and Disadvantages
- Appendix III The Sample
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix III - The Sample
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the 1995 edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Handicap of Deafness
- 2 The Deaf Child at Play
- 3 Day-to-Day Living
- 4 Discipline and Punishment
- 5 Learning to Communicate: Equipment
- 6 Learning to Communicate: Education
- 7 Coming to Terms with Deafness
- 8 Family Life with a Deaf Child
- 9 The Family and the Community
- 10 Overview
- Appendix I The Interview Schedule
- Appendix II The Interview Situation: Advantages and Disadvantages
- Appendix III The Sample
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
OBTAINING THE SAMPLE
The area chosen for the study was the East Midlands, for our purposes being the counties of Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire. This area includes large cities such as Nottingham, Leicester and Derby, large and small towns, villages, and very rural areas in parts of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.
Local Authorities are required to keep lists of the handicapped children in their area from the age of 2, and this includes children with a hearing loss. It was hoped that the lists maintained by Local Authorities would be relatively complete, as routine screening for deafness in the early months is recognised as a desirable routine policy.
The Medical Officer of Health in each Authority was requested to supply a list of deaf children in his area. Some Authorities felt able to provide a list. Some Authorities had a policy of not supplying lists of children in this way but they were able to co-operate with us by sending out letters from us to the parents with a pre-paid reply to us, allowing those parents who were prepared to be interviewed to contact us.
Our contact rate for the two groups varied as might be expected. Of the eighty-seven names that were provided:
62 were interviewed
12 had moved from the address given and their new address was not known
5 were no longer diagnosed as deaf
2 were too old for this study
1 family did not speak English
1 child was in a children's home
1 child diagnosed as aphasic rather than deaf; the mother of this child was interviewed but the interview is not included in this study
1 mother ill in hospital…
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- Deaf Children and their Families , pp. 228 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995