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Deaf Counselling Services
Positive Strategies for Working with
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Professional Development Course
for
Teachers
Robert NockBachelor of Social Work (Hons)
Accredited Mental Health Social Worker
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Today…
Issues facing..
Deaf & Hard Of Hearing Students
Identifying the risks
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Parents
Teachers
Ways to mitigate the risks
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Introductions…
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CODA
Auslan Interpreter
School Counsellor TPS
Mental Health Social Worker
Counsellor for Deaf & HOH
Resilience for carers
Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
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Position
How long in the field
Which groups of students
Ages
Deaf / HOH
Expectations from today
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What are the issues / concerns?
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Isolation…
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The Risks:
Mental Health Disorders….
Studies reporting higher prevalence of mental health problems in
deaf children…
Emotional-related problems Cornes et al (2006); Fellinger, et al (2008);
Hogan et al (2011)
Depression Theunissen et al (2011)
Hyperactivity Fellinger, Holzinger, Sattel, et al (2009); Hintermair (2007)
Inattention Fellinger, Holzinger, Sattel, et al (2009)
Excessive anxiety Keilmann, Limberger & Mann (2007)
*The Mental Health of Children living with deafness: Recommendations for change. Paul Jacobs PhD, Ann Porter
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The Risks:
Mental Health Disorders continued….
Behavioural problems
Poor conduct Fellinger, et al (2008); Fellinger, Holzinger, Sattel, et al (2009)
Social dysfunction Vostanis et al (1997)
Poor quality peer relationships Fellinger, et al (2008); Hintermair (2007);
Keilmann, et al (2007)
School problems Brunnberg, et al (2008a); (2008b)
Substance usage Brunnberg, et al (2008a)
*The Mental Health of Children living with deafness: Recommendations for change. Paul Jacobs PhD, Ann Porter
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Risks…
For parents...
Mothers of deaf, CI using children experience significantly more
symptoms of anxiety and insomnia compared to the mothers of
typically developing children…
Fathers of these children show the tendency for the increased level
of depression symptoms compared to the fathers from the control
group.
*Mental health problems of mothers and fathers of the deaf children with cochlear implants.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24837909
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What can we do….
For / with Students?
For / with Parents?
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Build Resilience
Created by Lyn Worsley
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The Resilience Doughnut® is a useful tool based on
international and Australian strengths based research on
resilience.
The model is helpful for professionals in the social service
sector, who want to use the evidence-based practice, based on what is working in children’s lives.
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I Have
The abilities of those who support me
I Am
How I view myself
I Can
Confidence in my own abilities
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“Learned Helplessness”
Martin Seligman
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Learned Resilience
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The Parent Factor
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The Parent Factor10 Characteristics
1. Open and Honest Communication
2. Warmth & Closeness
3. Parental Authority while consulting and listening to child
4. Close monitoring
5. Value child’s autonomy and independence
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The Parent Factor10 Characteristics
6. Parental harmony and cooperation
7. Parental self satisfaction and well-being
8. Reliable yet adaptable parents
9. Parents showing interest and responsibility to the world
10. Clear parental boundaries, consistent parenting style
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The Parent Factor
Feedback
Scores
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The Parent FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Parents socialising with their child's
peers
• Linking school & home
• Quality time with each parent and both
parents
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The Parent FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Tuning in to Kids
• Tuning in to Teens
• Emotion Coaching
• Magic 123
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The Skill Factor
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The Skill Factor10 Characteristics
1. Basic Literacy and Numeracy
2. Experience of competency (task / hobby)
3. Hardiness through experiences of difficult challenges
4. Ability to keep trying despite failing
5. Awareness of self-efficacy
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The Skill Factor10 Characteristics
6. Self confidence with a skill
7. Significant people who value their skill
8. Ability to set goals and show self discipline
9. High self esteem with regard to their skill
10. Social support system around this skill (coach, club)
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The Skill Factor
Feedback
Scores
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The Skill FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Send photos of the child
doing the skill to family
• Involve the student in tutoring
others the skill
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The Skill FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Keep a record of the development of the skill
• Show admiration at determination
• Assign tasks which involve similar skills
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The Family & Identity Factor
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The Family & Identity Factor10 Characteristics
1. Sense of belonging / connectedness to wider family
2. At least one caring / supportive relationship (outside parents)
3. High & positive expectations of children by wider family
4. Opportunities for participation in the wider family network
5. A sense of responsibility to the feelings of others in the family
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The Family & Identity Factor10 Characteristics
6. Positive sense of value and confidence within the family
7. Positive world view held by number within the family
8. Able to take risks without fear of losing acceptance
9. Having traits or characteristics which may be valued
10. Having gone through a crisis or tough time together
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The Family & Identity Factor
Feedback
Scores
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The Family & Identity FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Explore what is strong about the family…
• Love of reading
• Great with technology
• Always helping others
• Adventurous
• Spontaneous
• Team work
• Shopping
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The Education Factor
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The Education Factor10 Characteristics
1. Involved in a curriculum that promotes interest in students work
2. Feels valued as an individual and diversity is respected
3. Clear organizational and decision making structure
4. There is a teacher that believes in and connects with child
5. Teachers have high expectations of all students
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The Education Factor10 Characteristics
6. Teachers are resilient and are willing to see child’s potential
7. Teachers demonstrate a positive world view and are available
8. The child is involved in extra-curricular activities at school
9. Learning environment promoting participation
10. Child and parents have a sense of belonging to the school
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The Education Factor
Feedback
Scores
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The Education FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Focus on what the student is doing well
• Support teachers in doing this
• Encourage teachers to recognise the difference
they are making
• Identify where positive change / growth has
occurred for the student
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The Education FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Involve students in decision making in the
classroom
• Promote responsibility by assigning roles
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The Peer Factor
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The Peer Factor10 Characteristics
1. Sense of belonging and acceptance within a peer group
2. Relationships with peers involve conflict and harmony
3. Open communication with at least one friend (personal sharing)
4. A peer culture or group identity which the group holds to
5. Development of social norms / codes of conduct in group
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The Peer Factor10 Characteristics
6. The ability to make and maintain friends
7. Loyalty to the group – protecting mates from others
8. Ability to self regulate emotions when in the group
9. Awareness of varying moral codes of members in the group
10. Ability to express own views without fear of rejection
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The Peer Factor
Feedback
Scores
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The Peer FactorIdeas for Strengthening
For teachers…
• Give Moral dilemmas of peer pressure situations
• Show stages of moral development
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The Peer FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Display photos of them and their peer group
• Use positive labels to describe peer groups
• Explore what’s strong about their peer group
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The Peer FactorIdeas for Strengthening
For parents…
• Encourage parents to get to know the parents of their child’s
peers
• Carpool pick ups and drop offs to parties
• Take child’s friends on trips away / sleepovers
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The Peer FactorIdeas for Strengthening
For workers…
• Arrange some team work
• Find a social issue the peer group are passionate about
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The Community Factor
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The Community Factor10 Characteristics
1. Access to local services libraries, shops & community centres
2. Community that has a sense of social responsibility
3. A significant adult outside of family or school
4. Membership or involvement in a religious youth group
5. Involvement in a sporting club
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The Community Factor10 Characteristics
6. Involvement in Scouts / guides or equivalent
7. Valued as a part of a larger social network of family friends
8. A community network of strong families who value children
9. A place to develop faith in morality. A sense of right and wrong
10. A community that enables child to have hope and to trust
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The Community Factor
Feedback
Scores
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The Community FactorIdeas
• Explore the community and its groups / programs
• Encourage the family groups to meet and be involved in the
school
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The Money Factor
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The Money Factor10 Characteristics
1. Part of a family with an average income
2. Contributing to chores around the house
3. Earning money – part time job or chores
4. Waiting and saving for material possessions
5. Reflecting on how to spend money wisely
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The Money Factor10 Characteristics
6. Valuing hard to work to earn or raise money
7. Family who are punctual and have a good attitude towards work
8. Contributing to their purchases by age 12
9. Contributing to a savings account
10. Family has open communication about budgeting / spending
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The Money Factor
Feedback
Scores
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The Money FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Allow children to earn pocket money
• Encourage children to get paid work early
• Involve children in budgeting for events
• By age 12 children should be encouraged to save for larger
items
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The Money FactorIdeas for Strengthening
• Discuss developing a work ethic
• Show admiration if the child is motivated to work / save
• Involve children in fund raising
• Consider running a “Business Week”
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Factor Score Reasons
Parent
Skill
Family & Identity
Education
Peer
Community
Money
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Self Care…
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Recognize the hard work
Appreciate the smallest of
achievements
Meet with like minded professionals
Work / Life Balance
Check out your donut
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Recognize the hard work…
Working with young people going through tough times and with
colleagues, who may also be stressed, can test our patience and push
us to our limits.
Practicing self-care is an important professional development activity
that will help you to cognitively, physically and emotionally ‘bounce back’
each day over the long term.
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Appreciate the smallest of
achievements…
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Meet with like minded professionals…
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Work / Life Balance…
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Check out your donut…
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Positive Strategies: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
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Robert Nock
0478 100 231