The Lived Experience of Child Rearing Practice of Parents’ Who Have Children With Deaf in Andassa Kebele, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Asmamaw, Yebelay

dc.contributor.author	Asmamaw, Yebelay
dc.date.accessioned	2020-11-03T09:08:55Z
dc.date.available	2020-11-03T09:08:55Z
dc.date.issued	2012-11-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11517
dc.description.abstract	Raising a deaf child can affect parents, siblings, and family members in various ways. The presence of a deaf child may affect family life in terms of family interaction, family resources, parenting style, and access to support for the child. Parenting stress affects parentchild relationships and important child outcomes. Higher levels of parenting stress have been related to poorer social and emotional development in both deaf and hearing children. The study explored the lived experience of parents to raise children with hearing impairment regarding the lived experience of parents of raising deaf children, how parents cope with challenges that they faced in bringing up their deaf children, and lessons that can be drawn from the parental lived experience of raising deaf children. A qualitative research approach on particular emphasis on phenomenological research design and snowball sampling technique was employed to conduct the study. A semi-structured interview was used as a data collection instrument. The targeted place was Andasa kebele found between Bahir Dar and Tsisisat. A total of eight hearing parents having deaf children were selected purposively. The data analysis was carried out based on the thematic analysis. The finding shows that the majority of respondent parents the lived experience to raise deaf children is difficult they faced different challenges like communication barriers, psychological problems, financial problems and lack of support from government and non- governmental organization participant parents use coping mechanism to reduce families stress like religion and adaptability. According to the lived experience of the participant parents had numerous negative experiences caused by a lack of sufficient knowledge about the experiences of child rearing practice of parents’ who have children with deaf. Among the participant parents didn’t hope that the deafness of their children will be cured by spiritual remedy including miracle and the use of holy water. They further didn’t aspire that their children will get ma rried and have children through leading their independent life. Based on the finding of the study, the involvement of the concerned federal ministries in promoting and coordinating interventions needs to be available for parents and children with deaf.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Special Needs and Inclusive Education	en_US
dc.title	The Lived Experience of Child Rearing Practice of Parents’ Who Have Children With Deaf in Andassa Kebele, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US