Mahsa Tahzibi, Hadi Farahani, Mohammad Torkashvand Moradabadi, Laleh Golamrej Eliasi
{"title":"Exploring domestic violence against deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals: a quantitative survey using a sign language video questionnaire.","authors":"Mahsa Tahzibi, Hadi Farahani, Mohammad Torkashvand Moradabadi, Laleh Golamrej Eliasi","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag056","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores domestic violence against deaf and hard-of-hearing adults in Iran-an issue that has received little attention. Using a bilingual questionnaire available in both written Persian and Iranian Sign Language video, we surveyed 384 married or cohabiting deaf adults recruited through social media and deaf associations. Participants reported experiences of physical, psychological, sexual, and economic abuse. Psychological and sexual violence were the most common, especially among women and those in unstable or ended relationships. People who were only partly fluent in sign language faced added risks, reporting more sexual and economic violence than fully fluent or non-fluent participants. Violence was linked to negative views about deafness, and different types of abuse often occurred together. Higher levels of violence were associated with spousal separation, a partner becoming deaf later in life, and having deaf parents. The study shows the importance of sign-language-accessible tools and calls for better support services and protections for deaf people in Iran.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minority Stress Scale for the Deaf (MSS-D): an adapted measure for quantifying stress associated with audism.","authors":"Dilan H Arreguin, Crystal D Oberle","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag057","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to assess stress among culturally Deaf, physically deaf, and hard-of-hearing (D/deaf/HH) individuals. Given that these individuals are minorities within a hearing-based society, we adapted the Minority Stress Scale to examine the stress related to perceived audism from others (i.e., the feeling that they are being treated with an inferior bias due to their lack of hearing) and the stress related to internalized audism (i.e., an internal inferior bias against their own lack of hearing). A sample of 104 D/deaf/HH individuals completed this adapted scale (Minority Stress Scale for the Deaf [MSS-D]); the Parental Audism and Linguisticism Frequency Scale (PALFS); the Social, Attitudinal, Familial, and Environmental Acculturative Stress Scale-Deaf (SAFE-D); and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21). Factor analysis and reliability analyses revealed two internally consistent factors for the MSS-D: Stress from Anticipation of Experiencing Audism and Stress from Internalized Audism. As evidence of construct validity, the MSS-D subscales were moderately to strongly correlated with the PALFS and SAFE-D subscales, and they were weakly to moderately correlated with the DASS-21 subscales.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148764153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeffrey Levi Palmer, Carrie Lou Bloom, Mary Sanderson, Kelton Bloxham
{"title":"Institutional supports and access inequities for deaf college students.","authors":"Jeffrey Levi Palmer, Carrie Lou Bloom, Mary Sanderson, Kelton Bloxham","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag055","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jdsade/enag055","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deaf college students frequently encounter postsecondary environments where access is delivered through accommodations rather than through structural inclusion. This study investigates how deaf students experience three validated dimensions of campus climate, accommodating learning environments (ALE), campus connectedness (CC), and deaf-affirming climate (DAC), using data from 193 students at broad-access U.S. institutions. Descriptive, inferential, and exploratory modeling analyses show ALE is rated more positively than CC or DAC, with DAC emerging as the lowest-rated dimension, indicating persistent gaps between compliance-based access and meaningful inclusion. Nonbinary and transgender students reported significantly lower campus ratings than cisgender peers. Deaf-specific supports, particularly dedicated tutors and advisors, were the strongest predictors of higher campus ratings, whereas graduate student status and attending college near home predicted lower ratings. Findings underscore the need for proactive, relational, and culturally responsive institutional practices that reduce student burden and foster access, belonging, and identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148723242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caroline Bogliotti, Philomène Périn, Jeremy Yeaton
{"title":"Age of acquisition and neurodynamics in French Sign Language (LSF): insights from event-related potentials.","authors":"Caroline Bogliotti, Philomène Périn, Jeremy Yeaton","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how language modality and psycholinguistic factors such as age of acquisition (AoA) shape language processing is central to the neurobiology of language. This study provides the first event-related potential (ERP) data on semantic and morphosyntactic processing in French Sign Language (LSF) using an online sentence comprehension task. Deaf native and non-native signers were presented with sentences containing semantic or morphosyntactic anomalies. As in spoken and other signed languages, semantic violations elicited a biphasic N400-P600 response. In contrast, morphosyntactic anomalies did not yield a clear Left Anterior Negativity (LAN) effect. No significant impact of AoA was observed on either semantic or morphosyntactic processing. These findings are discussed with respect to visuospatial modality specificity and the relevance of AoA thresholds in assessing language processing in deaf signers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148680552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication, psychological, and social outcomes for DHH adults with DHH parents.","authors":"Hulya Gocmenler, Jesper Dammeyer, Seyma Nur Tabak","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated how having a deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) parent influences outcomes in DHH adults. A cross-sectional survey design and secondary analysis of data from 755 DHH adults aged 16-64, including 146 (19%) with at least 1 DHH parent, was used. Participants with and without a DHH parent were compared, and a comparative sub-analysis of participants under 35 years of age was also conducted. Analyses examined audiological, language, psychological, social, and family outcomes. Participants with a DHH parent were more likely to have a DHH sibling and a DHH child. Participants with a DHH parent had higher educational attainment, were less likely to have attended a deaf school in childhood, and were less likely to use sign language, a finding that may reflect the heterogeneity of the DHH parent group. However, these findings were not observed in the subgroup of participants younger than 35 years. The study points to the potential importance of family and intergenerational influences on DHH individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148680577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Murat Doğan, Osman Çolaklıoğlu, Emrah Akkaya, Mahire Kılıç, Abdullah Genç
{"title":"Tracing deaf studies and deaf education: insights from JDSDE's three decades.","authors":"Murat Doğan, Osman Çolaklıoğlu, Emrah Akkaya, Mahire Kılıç, Abdullah Genç","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Journal analyses that capture trends, debates, and dilemmas offer valuable insight into the evolution of a field. Since 1996, the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (JDSDE) has been a central journal in the field, demonstrating notable scholarly impact. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of Deaf Education and Deaf Studies by systematically examining 961 full articles published in JDSDE over 30 years from a critical perspective. Articles were analyzed with respect to research topics, methods, and collaboration patterns. Eighteen topics were identified within educational, developmental, linguistic, and cultural categories. Literacy, language development, cognitive and social-emotional development, early intervention, and Deaf identity/culture accounted for 67.7% of the topics. Quantitative research dominated (78.8%). Interdisciplinary collaboration was satisfactory (60%). Findings indicate opportunities for greater representation of cultural topics, inclusion, early intervention, Deaf people with disabilities, and qualitative, single-case, action, mixed-methods research, and international collaboration. Future systematic analysis of all scholarly journals is anticipated to offer a more comprehensive and integrated view of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148649520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claudia A Libbi, Adva Eichengreen, Josine Buiskool, André Götze, Karolin Schäfer, Hendrik Christiaan Stronks, Johan H M Frijns, Carolien Rieffe
{"title":"Students with cochlear implants' experiences of built, sound, and social school environments.","authors":"Claudia A Libbi, Adva Eichengreen, Josine Buiskool, André Götze, Karolin Schäfer, Hendrik Christiaan Stronks, Johan H M Frijns, Carolien Rieffe","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students with cochlear implants (CIs) are increasingly attending mainstream schools but often encounter social barriers with peers. This study explores how environmental factors and individual adaptation strategies shape these social experiences, interviewing 13 CI users (aged 17-27) who attended mainstream education. Thematic content analysis revealed four themes and 12 sub-themes around social barriers: difficulties socializing, sound and built environment barriers, social environment barriers, and adaptive strategies. Findings show participants developed many effective internal and external adaptations to manage barriers, yet often at the cost of their comfort, energy, or social safety, thus requiring additional strategies to maintain balance. This highlights social and emotional aspects of inclusion and asymmetric distributions of responsibility. Findings also highlighted school design choices and cultural/social practices that could shape the cost of adapting, underscoring the need for structural changes in educational environments that facilitate more equitable social access for DHH students.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148649494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-modal transfer in Thai deaf students' narratives.","authors":"Kunlaya Sai-Ngam, Sarawut Kraisame","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This exploratory study examined associations between Thai Sign Language (ThSL) narrative competence and written Thai proficiency among deaf students with varied backgrounds and ages of acquisition, using correlational and linguistic-discourse analysis of Frog, Where Are You? retellings. Positive correlations emerged in complex sentence production and noun phrase use; given the small sample (n = 6), findings are preliminary and hypothesis-generating. Native signers and bilingual-bicultural program students scored descriptively higher than Total Communication peers. Qualitative analysis showed ThSL features (role shift, classifiers, spatial mapping) scaffolding written Thai discourse. In directive constructions, ThSL encodes directive force via role shift while written Thai requires an often-omitted clausal complementizer, documenting not only the presence but also the structural limits of cross-modal transfer. These findings suggest ThSL competence as an essential cognitive foundation for written Thai literacy, inform debates on the specificity and boundaries of bimodal transfer, with implications for curriculum design and teacher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148622024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ma Regina L de Gracia, Marshall N Valencia, Maria Veronica T Perez, John Xandre C Baliza, Tuan Sek Chua
{"title":"Burnout as mediator between job demands and mental health in interpreters.","authors":"Ma Regina L de Gracia, Marshall N Valencia, Maria Veronica T Perez, John Xandre C Baliza, Tuan Sek Chua","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explored burnout as a mediator between job demands and mental health among Filipino sign language interpreters. Using data from 83 participants, parallel mediation analyses tested whether intrapersonal and interpersonal demands were associated with anxiety and depression through personal and work-related burnout, while controlling for age. Results indicated that intrapersonal demands were positively associated with personal burnout, which in turn was associated with higher anxiety and depression. In contrast, work-related burnout did not significantly mediate any pathways, and interpersonal demands did not significantly associate with burnout or mental health outcomes. Age was negatively associated with both burnout types and indirectly influenced anxiety and depression through reduced personal burnout. These findings identify personal burnout as a key mechanism linking psychological job demands to mental health and highlight the importance of culturally informed approaches to supporting interpreter wellbeing.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148608706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yujin Park, Yeo Wool Kim, Gi Won Choi, Ha Na Jeong, Hee Jung Kim, Sun Ju Chang
{"title":"Effects of the preventive hypertension self-management education program for deaf and hard of hearing adults: a randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Yujin Park, Yeo Wool Kim, Gi Won Choi, Ha Na Jeong, Hee Jung Kim, Sun Ju Chang","doi":"10.1093/jdsade/enag042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag042","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) individuals often experience limited access to health information due to communication barriers, increasing their risk for hypertension. This randomized controlled trial evaluated PRE-H-SMILE (PREventive Hypertension Self-Management Intervention using sign LanguagE), an 8-week, sign language-based program for DHH adults without prior hypertension. It was hypothesized that the intervention group would exhibit higher levels of health-promoting behaviors and show a trend toward blood pressure reduction compared with the control group. The program included weekly sign language educational videos and two in-person sessions. A total of 37 participants completed the study (intervention = 20, control = 17). Total health-promoting behavior scores increased significantly in the intervention group (χ2 = 5.530, p = .019), and sedentary time decreased significantly (F = 4.766, p = .039). No significant changes were observed in blood pressure. Findings suggest that PRE-H-SMILE can effectively support healthier behaviors among DHH adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":47768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148608661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}