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Language development and aggression in hearing-impaired males in a residential school
Abstract
Within the field of deaf education, a commonly held belief is that the incidence of acts of aggression will decrease as the hearing impaired child's competence in language increases. To examine this relationship, a longitudinal study using file reviews was conducted with a sample of bilaterally deaf males aged 4 to 14 from a residential school. Frequency counts of aggression and scores on the Reading subtest of the Stanford Achievement Test-Hearing Impaired were examined for the school years beginning in 1986, 1987, 1988 by means of a Time Series Analysis. This analysis showed a significant trend in the direction of establishing a correlation between lower levels of aggression and increases in language competence.
Subject Area
Behavioral psychology|Special education|Audiology
Recommended Citation
Kuntz, Lisa Anne, "Language development and aggression in hearing-impaired males in a residential school" (1992). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI9219458.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9219458