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Self-Concept in Hearing and Prelingual, Profoundly Deaf Students: A Comparison of Teachers' Perceptions
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 136, Number 4, October 1991
- pp. 354-359
- 10.1353/aad.2012.0499
- Article
- Additional Information
A self-concept measure was administered to a group of 68 deaf students aged 8-19 years and a comparison group of 68 hearing students. Teachers for both of the groups completed observer reports of self-concept. Although tentative, the findings indicate that hearing teachers' perceptions of students' self-concepts are in closer agreement for hearing students than they are for deaf students. At the same time, the results show that deaf students do not appear markedly different from hearing students in their own reports of self-concept.