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Mother-child interactions in deaf-hearing dyads: multiple-case study

About 95% of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children are born into hearing families. Given this audiological and linguistic mismatch, it is challenging for parents to establish interactions and communicate with their children. Addressing and assessing parent-child interaction is important as early interactions have been shown to predict later language performance in deaf children regardless of language modality (Curtin et al., 2021). The aim of this exploratory case study was to describe and compare the characteristics of four pairs of mother-child interactions to identify outcomes for future research. The pairs include: a prelingually deaf child with bilateral cochlear implants and his hearing mother, a child with severe deafness and her hearing mother, and two hearing dyads - hearing children with his/her hearing mother, matched by gender and chronological age with deaf children . All children were 2-3 years old. Mother-child interactions were collected using the Communication Play Protocol (Adamson et al., 2004), which allows for semi-natural observations in a laboratory playroom where the mother plays with her child. The interactions were video recorded and analyzed for each dyad. The dyads were rated by the researchers using the Joint Engagement Rating Inventory (Adamson et al., 2020) for joint engagement, mothers scaffolding, mothers following-in on child's focus, the child’s initiation of communication, responsiveness, and the child's expressive language use, using a 7- point Likert scale for each item. The early interactions characteristics of deaf-hearing dyads were described and compared, and additionally compared to hearing dyads.

communication ; interaction ; mother-child dyads ; deaf

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