Deaf Adolescents
Subtitle: Inner Lives and Lifeworld Development
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press; Gaullaudet University Press
Published: March 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781563683695
Subjects: Children's Studies; Sociology - General; Social Science / Children's Studies; Social Science; Sociology
Description: "In her landmark book Inner Lives of Deaf Children: Interviews and Analysis, Martha A. Sheridan explored the lifeworlds - the individual and collective elements and realities that are present within the participants' existential experiences, their relationships, and their truths - of seven deaf and hard of hearing children between the ages of seven and ten. What she discovered were deaf children with strengths, positive experiences, and positive relationships. Here, Sheridan returns to these seven individuals, now between the ages of 13 and 17, to see how their lives have progressed since their first interviews." "Establishing an identity is said to be a primary and necessary task of adolescence. Deaf Adolescents reveals how these teenagers all have begun to deal with tasks and situations that lead them to rely more on themselves and others outside of their families. Many of them talk about the challenges they face and how their success depends upon their own efforts. In the midst of the furious growth that they are experiencing, they enjoy more time spent with other deaf friends and also think about their future lives."--Jacket.