School Social Work - Education on Deaf Children A Study of the Social Worker's Role as Perceived by the Teaching Staff in the Bruce Street School for the Deaf, Newark, New Jersey, 1964–1965
Abstract
Hearing is called the "social sense" for it is used 1 mainly to establish social relationships. Because the deaf child lacks the primary tool needed to establish meaningful contacts with his environment, he is confronted with problems and difficulties in growth and development which are unique in a verbal world. However, since deafness is an invisible disability it presents neither appeal to sympathy nor clue to understanding to the general public. Something of what the handicap means to the deaf is expressed advantageously in the following analogy by D. M. Welling.If I had the power to forbid you to communicate; forbid you to listen to speak, to read or to write, I could reduce your environment and social structure to that of an animal. I could completely stop the teaching-learning process. I could lock your intellect.
Subject Area
American studies|Special education|Social work|Social structure
Recommended Citation
Coleman, Mary Catherine, "School Social Work - Education on Deaf Children A Study of the Social Worker's Role as Perceived by the Teaching Staff in the Bruce Street School for the Deaf, Newark, New Jersey, 1964–1965" (1965). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050489.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050489
