Signs of Resilience: Assets That Support Deaf Adults’ Success in Bridging the Deaf and Hearing Worlds

A MULTIPLE-CASE EXPLORATORY study is used to describe intrapersonal, behavioral, and environmental assets that may build bridges for Deaf adults between the Deaf and hearing worlds. A study of three exemplary former community college students provides new information about internal resources that ma...

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Published in:American annals of the deaf (Washington, D.C. 1886) D.C. 1886), 2003, Vol.148 (3), p.222-232
Main Authors: Rogers, Susan, Muir, Karen, Evenson, Christine Raimonde
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Adults
Affect
American sign language
Auditory perception
Aural learning
Biological and medical sciences
Case Studies
Collaboration
College Students
Communities
Community Colleges
Deaf culture
Deafness
Ear, auditive nerve, cochleovestibular tract, facial nerve: diseases, semeiology
Educational Status
Hearing
Hearing (Physiology)
Humans
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relations
Learning
Literature Reviews
Medical sciences
Mentors
Non tumoral diseases
Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology
Personality
Prevention and actions
Psychology
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Self Concept
Social Support
Socialization
Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...)
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Summary:A MULTIPLE-CASE EXPLORATORY study is used to describe intrapersonal, behavioral, and environmental assets that may build bridges for Deaf adults between the Deaf and hearing worlds. A study of three exemplary former community college students provides new information about internal resources that may empower Deaf individuals to achieve work and social success in interaction with environmental support, despite the vulnerabilities associated with their deafness. This study identifies 15 assets that may support resilience in Deaf adults, includingauthenticityandcomfort with solitude. The authors hypothesize that social authenticity and comfort with solitude may be resilience-fostering intrapersonal assets of unique importance in the Deaf community. From the positive psychology perspective of recognizing and building on human strengths, the authors suggest that support of mutual asset-building with learning partners in the classroom is one way professors might promote optimal student achievement and life success for all students.
ISSN:0002-726X
1543-0375
1543-0375
DOI:10.1353/aad.2003.0023