title: A comparison study of educational involvement of hearing parents of deaf and hearing children of elementary school age.
abstract: This study was conducted to determine if a difference exists in level of educational involvement between hearing parents of deaf children and hearing parents of hearing children. Participating parents were asked to complete a 23-question survey about their involvement in their children's education over the past year. Neither group of parents demonstrated a significantly higher level of involvement in their children's education. However, parents of deaf children observed their children in the classroom more than parents of hearing children; parents of hearing children volunteered in their child's classroom more than parents of deaf children.
authors.affiliation: Department of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Powers
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Saskiewicz
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006311:Hearing Disorders; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires