Bullying of Students with Cochlear Implants
Open Access
- Author:
- Jahn, Erika Lee
- Area of Honors:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Science
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Dr. Ingrid Maria Blood, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Carol Anne Miller, Thesis Honors Advisor - Keywords:
- review of literature
methods
results and research conclusions
references - Abstract:
- Bullying has become a hot button topic in the media since the recent suicides of children who were victims of relentless bullying. Bullying comes in many shapes and forms, and children who are identified as weaker or quieter than their peers can fall victim to the abuse of schoolyard bullies. Unfortunately, children with communication disorders often fall into the quieter category. Their communication disorder may be a symptom or consequence of a larger disorder that may also cause them to have social skill impairments. Children with poor social skills may not know how to appropriately interact with their peers or may respond incorrectly to their peers’ attempts at social interaction. These social impairments can also open children with communication disorders up to an increased chance of being bullied. To get an idea of how comfortable Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) felt with getting involved in situations where children on their caseload were experiencing different types of bullying. We sent out surveys focusing on different types of bullying, physical, verbal, relational, and cyber, and asked them to rate how comfortable they felt with 14 different strategies. We received 507 of the 1000 surveys back. I chose to focus on the surveys specifically related to children with cochlear implants. After calculating the mean of the responses, we found that SLP’s are comfortable with using strategies to prevent further bullying of children on their caseloads.