Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America.
National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, Austin, Texas, United States of America.
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2021 Jun 14;26(3):417-426. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enab011.
Successful social engagement is one of many important outcomes for deaf youth as they transition from high school to adult life. This study examined the effect of self-advocacy and social/life skill trainings in secondary school settings on social engagement after high school using propensity score modeling and data from the large-scale and nationally representative National Longitudinal Transition Study-2. Analyses focused on three types of post-high school social engagement: frequency of seeing friends, involvement in group activities, and participation in community service. A fourth outcome variable was created to indicate whether the individual was at least minimally engaged. Results found that deaf youth who received self-advocacy training in secondary school were significantly more likely to be at least minimally engaged than those who had not. These findings suggest that self-advocacy training in high school can help protect deaf youth against social isolation in young adulthood.
成功的社交参与是聋人青年从高中过渡到成年生活的许多重要成果之一。本研究使用倾向评分建模和来自大规模、全国代表性的国家纵向过渡研究-2 的数据，考察了中学阶段的自我倡导和社会/生活技能培训对高中毕业后社交参与的影响。分析集中在三种高中毕业后的社交参与类型上：与朋友见面的频率、参与团体活动的程度以及参与社区服务的情况。还创建了第四个结果变量来表示个人是否至少有一定程度的参与。研究结果发现，在中学接受自我倡导培训的聋人青年比未接受培训的青年更有可能至少有一定程度的参与。这些发现表明，高中阶段的自我倡导培训可以帮助保护聋人青年免受成年早期的社交孤立。
