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Needs assessment for supporting deaf children with severe and multiple disabilities and their families

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2011, 12(2), pp.91-113
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

박미정 1 Jaekweon Chung 1 박경란 1

1우석대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study tried to clarify what is the difficulties of families who have deaf children with severe and multiple disabilities, and to assess what kind of supports are needed to nurture their children by in-depth interview with mothers. Through the interview, 16 sub-categories were derived from 63 concepts, and 8 major categories were derived. The practical difficulties that deaf children with severe and multiple disabilities affecting their families were as follows; difficulties to encounter experts while diagnostic process, communication difficulties of families with their children with severe and multiple disabilities, economic hardship to nurture and educate their children, suffering of depression, and guilt feelings for the siblings without disabilities. As the needed supports, they needed systematic supports for diagnosis and disability acceptance, enhancing interaction with their children, enlarging services for promoting quality of life, and social supporting systems for reinforcing family empowerment.

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