The Journal Club 'Deaf children and young people'

Content

The Journal Club is aimed at deaf and hearing professionals who are interested in deafness, with education and early years the primary focus. You will be based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. You may be a Masters or PhD student, or a professional with a postgraduate qualification, working with deaf children or a research student in a related field interested in further study. Your interests might be deaf education, deaf children, speech and language therapy, audiology, and/or Deaf Studies.

This Journal Club will meet once or twice a term. Each session will have two leaders who will facilitate the discussions in the main room and break out groups. Reading articles will either be articles in Deafness & Education International or otherwise open access. Details of the reading are below. All attendees are required to read the article in advance at least twice and write down questions you are interested in following up.

Aims:

• Provide a safe and respected space for professionals with less experience to enhance their critical evaluation skills.
• Provide a platform to discuss what the research means to our practice and how it can impact our work.
• Develop a network of research-active or research-engaged peers to discuss current and future research ideas in deafness, from birth to adulthood.

Article details

Kristin Snoddon (17 Apr 2024): Possible beings: Deaf children and linguistic justice, Deafness & Education International, DOI: 10.1080/14643154.2024.2342056

To assist in reading the paper, Rachel provided a reading guide and asked the Author to record a video on the terms she used:

• Article reading guide/questions to consider (MS Word docx)

Target Audience

The Journal Club is aimed at deaf and hearing professionals who are interested in deafness, with education and early years the primary focus. You will be based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. You may be a Masters or PhD student, or a professional with a postgraduate qualification, working with deaf children or a research student in a related field interested in further study. Your interests might be deaf education, deaf children, speech and language therapy, audiology, and/or Deaf Studies.

Session leader

Rachel O'Neill is a senior lecturer in deaf education at Moray House School of Education and Sport in the University of Edinburgh. She leads the deaf education pathway which qualifies teachers to work with deaf children. Her recent research is about deaf young people moving from school to adulthood; the experiences of families on a low income raising deaf children; the effects of the BSL (Scotland) Act on deaf education; Summaries and captioning in schools; and online reading of deaf and hearing teenagers. Rachel works closely with the Scottish Sensory Centre where she has been involved with the BSL Glossary project since its inception in 2007. Rachel has been co-editor of the journal, Deafness & Education International.

Future sessions

Themes will be guided by the leaders for those sessions. We will draw leaders from recent PhD graduates and PhD students studying in these areas as well as advanced practitioners.

Interested in being a leader?

Have you completed and currently undertaking a deaf education specific topic and keen to lead a session? Please do contact Rachel for an informal discussion: rachel.oneill@ed.ac.uk