The Journal Club 'Deaf children and young people'

Presented on Wednesday, 16th November 2022

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.

Article details

Jones, L; Chilton, H & Theakston, A. (2022) 'Supporting the development of scientific enquiry and conceptual understanding in science with deaf and typically hearing preschool children through a home-based science intervention' Deafness and Education International, July 2022. Open Access.

To assist in reading the paper we used this CASP Checklist:

CASP Randomised Controlled Trial Standard Checklist (pdf)

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.

Target Audience

Presenter

Emily Wright is a PhD student at the University of Reading, investigating spoken language multilingualism in deaf children. Her PhD is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is being supervised by Prof. Ludovica Serratrice and Prof. Vesna Stojanovik. Prior to starting her PhD, Emily qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist.

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