ABSTRACT

In the current study we examine how hearing parents use multimodal cuing to establish joint attention with their hearing (n = 9) or deaf (n = 9) children during a free-play session. The deaf children were all candidates for cochlear implantation who had not yet been implanted, and each hearing child was age-matched to a deaf child. We coded parents’ use of auditory, visual, and tactile cues, alone and in different combinations, during both successful and failed bids for children’s attention. Although our findings revealed no clear quantitative differences in parents’ use of multimodal cues as a function of child hearing status, secondary analyses revealed that hearing parents of deaf children used shorter utterances while initiating joint attention than did hearing parents of hearing children. Hearing parents of deaf children also touched their children twice as often throughout the play session than did hearing parents of hearing children. These findings demonstrate that parents differentially accommodate the specific needs of their hearing and deaf children in subtle ways to establish communicative intent.

摘要

在当前的研究中，我们研究了听力正常的父母如何在自由游戏过程中使用多模式提示与听力正常 ( n = 9) 或聋哑 ( n = 9) 的孩子建立共同注意力。这些聋哑儿童都是尚未植入人工耳蜗的候选者，每个听力正常的儿童都与聋哑儿童年龄相匹配。我们对父母在吸引孩子注意力的成功和失败过程中单独或以不同组合使用听觉、视觉和触觉提示进行了编码。尽管我们的研究结果表明，父母使用多模式线索作为儿童听力状态的函数没有明显的数量差异，但二次分析显示，聋哑儿童的听力正常的父母在启动共同注意力时比听力正常的儿童的听力正常的父母使用更短的话语。在整个游戏过程中，聋哑儿童的听力正常的父母触摸孩子的次数也是听力正常儿童的听力正常的父母的两倍。这些发现表明，父母以微妙的方式差异化地满足听力正常和聋哑儿童的特定需求，以建立沟通意图。