Parents of Children with Hearing Impairment Accessing Counseling Services in Zimbabwe

Autor/inn/en	Charema, John; Eloff, Irma
Titel	Parents of Children with Hearing Impairment Accessing Counseling Services in Zimbabwe
Quelle	In: Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 12 (2011) 1, S.17-27 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1555-6913
Schlagwörter	Counseling Services; Special Schools; Hospitals; Hearing Impairments; Questionnaires; Parents; Foreign Countries; Access to Health Care; Children; Surveys; Interviews; Parent Attitudes; Coping; Churches; Family Role; Family Income; Interpersonal Communication; Knowledge Level; Daily Living Skills; Special Education; Zimbabwe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Special school; Sonderschule; Krankengymnast; Krankenhaus; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Fragebogen; Eltern; Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Elternverhalten; Bewältigung; Church; Kirche; Familieneinkommen; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Wissensbasis; Alltagsfertigkeit; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Simbabwe
Abstract	This paper explores how parents of children with hearing impairment access counseling services in Zimbabwe. A survey design was used in which a sample of 300 parents of children with hearing impairment completed a multi-item questionnaire. Interviews were then conducted with the 300 parent-participants in order to cross-check questionnaire responses. The questionnaire sought to establish how they accessed counseling and also to elicit their views about the counseling they did receive. Parents' difficulties and problems in accepting and coping with their children with hearing impairment were also explored. Subsequently, an open-ended questionnaire was then used to elicit parents' views on how counseling could be made more accessible. Questionnaire data were analyzed through descriptive statistics to provide information on how parents accessed counseling services. Interview data was analyzed by means of a correlation with the quantitative data. Results from this study indicate that most of the parents in this study accessed counseling from special schools and to a lesser extent from individuals, hospitals, churches, counseling organizations and relatives. In terms of influential factors, financial constraints, communication and lack of knowledge to teach children with hearing impairment basic living skills were highlighted by participants in this study. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10