Kiener, Sara (2023) Building bridges. Strategies for supporting peer interactions in a residential facility for people with congenital deafblindness. Master thesis, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences.
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to gain insight into the extent to which peer interactions among individuals with congenital deafblindness were observed by care professionals in a residential facility and to discover the strategies these professionals applied to support and promote peer interactions. Peer interactions are essential to the development and well-being of people with congenital deafblindness. A mixed methods approach was used, including a survey to assess the number of observed interactions and a focus group discussion to explore the applied strategies that promote the importance of peer interactions and the role and attitude of professionals. Findings of the survey show that professionals did observe peer interactions but to a limited extent and mainly during everyday situations. The focus group discussion revealed several applied strategies and suggested new approaches, emphasizing the negative impact of a lack of professional support or attitude. Based on these findings, recommendations for practice were formulated, including raising awareness among professionals through training, developing a best practice manual of strategies to support peer interactions, training of these strategies by using video analysis, and stimulating multiparty conversations. Further research should focus on assessing the impact of implemented strategies, investigating environmental factors affecting peer interactions, and exploring the influence of professional attitudes and roles. Keywords: peer interaction, congenital deafblindness, professional attitude and role, applied and new strategies, mixed research method
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Damen, S. and Westberg, B.A.J. |
| Degree programme: | Pedagogical and Educational Sciences |
| Differentiation route: | Communication and Deafblindness [Master Pedagogical and Educational Sciences] |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2023 07:56 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2023 07:56 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2378 |
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