英文摘要 |
The current preliminary study aimed to use survey questionnaires to explore the perspectives of teachers regarding school readiness of children who were deaf or hard of hearing transitioning from kindergarten to the first grade of elementary school. The study included sixteen teachers working in three early intervention institutes for the deaf or hard of hearing in central Taiwan, and eighteen first-grade teachers teaching students who were deaf or hard of hearing from eight elementary schools in Chunghua County, also in central Taiwan. There were six domains in the questionnaires: "Academic learning", "Social-emotion", "group adaptation", "self-care", "language communication", and "motor". The result of this study indicated that teachers at both stages regarded all the domains as important school readiness skills for children who were deaf or hard of hearing transitioning from kindergarten to elementary school. "Language communication" was rated as the domain with the best instruction by teachers of the early intervention institutes for the deaf or hard of hearing. In addition, from the perspectives of the first grade teachers, "motor" was rated as the domain with the best preparation and "social-emotion" was the one with the least preparation. Further discussion and suggestions were given based on the result of the study. |