We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2009
OBTAINING THE SAMPLE
The area chosen for the study was the East Midlands, for our purposes being the counties of Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire. This area includes large cities such as Nottingham, Leicester and Derby, large and small towns, villages, and very rural areas in parts of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.
Local Authorities are required to keep lists of the handicapped children in their area from the age of 2, and this includes children with a hearing loss. It was hoped that the lists maintained by Local Authorities would be relatively complete, as routine screening for deafness in the early months is recognised as a desirable routine policy.
The Medical Officer of Health in each Authority was requested to supply a list of deaf children in his area. Some Authorities felt able to provide a list. Some Authorities had a policy of not supplying lists of children in this way but they were able to co-operate with us by sending out letters from us to the parents with a pre-paid reply to us, allowing those parents who were prepared to be interviewed to contact us.
Our contact rate for the two groups varied as might be expected. Of the eighty-seven names that were provided:
62 were interviewed
12 had moved from the address given and their new address was not known
5 were no longer diagnosed as deaf
2 were too old for this study
1 family did not speak English
1 child was in a children's home
1 child diagnosed as aphasic rather than deaf; the mother of this child was interviewed but the interview is not included in this study
1 mother ill in hospital…
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
