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- Title
On understanding without words: Communication between a deaf-blind child and her parents.
- Authors
Goode, David A.
- Abstract
This paper is an empirical inquiry into the nature of human communication and understanding. It is organized into three sections. First, there is an overview of the ethnomethodological critique of mainstream social scientific research methodology and the relevance of this critique to clinical behavioral research. Here ethnomethodologists assert that no matter how intellectually satisfying, precise quantified description of social reality fail to validly portray how everyday events are produced and experienced by those who live them. Second, the details of an ethnomethodological study of communication practices in a family with an alingual, deaf-blind child are provided. This study employed the method of direct home observation which, it was hoped, would address the absence of naturalistic data about families living with retarded members. Examining the research literature on families with members with retardation revealed the customary plethora of quantitative studies. Third, implications of the case study are presented.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; ETHNOMETHODOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences; SOCIAL reality; DEAFBLIND children; PARENTS of deafblind children
- Publication
Human Studies, 1990, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0163-8548
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00143039