Structural Features of a Family with an Impaired Hearing Child

Student: Astankova Polina

Educational Programme: Systemic Family Therapy (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

The dissertation researches families with a child with hearing impairment. The thesis analyses such parameters of a family structure as its internal and external boundaries and hierarchy. These parameters have been studied using two methods: a drawing of the family and a sociogram of the family. These methods were chosen based on the specifics of the social perception by people with hearing impairment. A number of differences of the family structure were identified and analysed in the course of the research of families raising teenage children and primary school children with hearing impairment. Key words: family, internal boundaries of the family, external boundaries of the family, hierarchy, a child with hearing impairment.

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