Citation

Coll KM, Cutler MM, Thobro P, Haas R, Powell S. Am. Ann. Deaf 2009; 154(1): 30-35.

Affiliation

College of Education, Boise State University, Idaho, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Conference of Educational Administration Serving the Deaf and Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Publisher Gallaudet University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19569302

Abstract

The study compared psychosocial risk behaviors of adolescents who were deaf or hard of hearing with those of their hearing peers in a residential treatment facility. Statistically significant differences emerged between groups. The adolescents who were deaf or hard of hearing demonstrated clinically higher scores than those of their hearing peers on the psychosocial risk behaviors of risk to others, social and adaptive functioning, need for structure, aggression toward people and animals, destruction of property, theft and deceit, and rules violations. Implications and suggestions for helping professionals are included.

Language: en