A study of communication between the deaf child and his family

Abstract

newline Hearing impairment is both a sensory defect newlineand a communication handicap Therefore the hearingimpaired newlinechild has to be viewed within the context of newlinehis familial and social environments The objectives newlineof this study were to trace the emerging patterns of newlinecommunication between deaf child and his parents and newlinesiblings in these two enVironments to analyse the newlineinfluencing factors as perceived by each parent the newlineproblems each identified and ways of coping that each newlinedevised