Current Status of Hearing-Impaired Children in Reading Picture Books With Their Parents in China: Comparison With Normal Hearing Children

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200824.229How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading picture book, children with hearing impairment, china

Abstract

So far, a lot of research on how hearing children read picture books with parents at home has been done. However, there is no detailed information concerning how children with hearing impairment read picture books with their parents at home and why parents read picture books to their hearing- impaired children. This study investigated the current status of children with hearing impairment reading picture books with their parents in China and what types of thoughts parents have toward reading picture books, and comparing this to hearing children. 88 parents of hearing-impaired children aged 3 to 5 and 107 parents of hearing children aged 3 to 5 answered a questionnaire concerning how their children read picture books at home and their thoughts on reading picture books. Results showed that children with hearing impairment read picture books with parents once a week at home for 5 to 15 minutes each time, starting later and less frequently than hearing children. When reading picture books, parents of hearing children pay more attention to practicing their children’s language and hearing, improving their children’s imagination and ensuring a reading environment. On the other hand, it suggests that parents of hearing-impaired children don’t read in a variety of ways and don’t make much effort to give their children full reading. Moreover, compared with parents of hearing-impaired children, parents of hearing children have a strong desire to increase their children’s knowledge and communication skills by reading picture books.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenqing Mao
AU  - Satoe Saigusa
AU  - Inho Chung
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/25
TI  - Current Status of Hearing-Impaired Children in Reading Picture Books With Their Parents in China: Comparison With Normal Hearing Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Progress in Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Symposium (PSSHERS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1041
EP  - 1042
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200824.229
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200824.229
ID  - Mao2020
ER  -