INTERACTION OF A HEARING IMPAIRED CHILD WITH HER IMMEDIATE...

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Structure and Rationale of the Study To communicate is to satisfy man’s individual need for social, emotional, and human development. Communication is considered a basic human need for people cannot not communicate. We all need to communicate to develop our full potentials. These potentialities, however, are being held up in the case of the hearing-impaired people. They are not able to develop their full potentials for their faculty of understanding is also impaired. They have the special need of having other means of communicating. They are in need of a medium that would help them express and communicate what is on their minds. Concisely, they need to engage in communication activities that would†¦show more content†¦People’s beliefs and actions are largely influenced by the society. Hence, the hearing-impaired might have the same meanings as ours for we are all part of the same society. However, because of the discrepancies on communication patterns and social interactions, there might be some differences on what we see as meaningful to what they perceive as meaningful. Hence, the way they perceive and learn symbols and their corresponding meanings may be different from or similar to us. Their patterns of communication and realities mi ght be different from ours as well. Thus, the need to interpret the actions and beliefs of a person from the group of hearing-impaired would help us somehow understand their group in general and the effects of their impairment to shared meanings. By interpreting the overt behaviors and actions of a deaf, explanation of other underlying concepts on meaning-making process and sign system formation (Denzin, Lincoln, 1994) can be provided. However, this study sought not to generalize the phenomena of the hearing-impaired population but to make the reader understand the phenomena as seen and described by the researcher – me. Symbolic interactionism is the lens of the study for better portrayal and understanding of the meaning-making process. Symbolic interaction is perceived as the communication theory of human behavior (Faules and Alexander, 1978) as it highlights the significanceShow MoreRelatedStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesCulture Creates Climate 516 †¢ Culture as a Liability 517 Creating and Sustaining Culture 519 How a Culture Begins 519 †¢ Keeping a Culture Alive 519 †¢ Summary: How Cultures Form 523 How Employees Learn Culture 523 Stories 523 †¢ Rituals 524 †¢ Material Symbols 524 †¢ Language 524 Creating an Ethical Organizational Culture 525 Creating a Positive Organizational Culture 527 Spirituality and Organizational Culture 529 What Is Spirituality? 529 †¢ Why Spirituality Now? 530 †¢ Characteristics of a Spiritual Organization