Interventions on parenting styles of hearing parents parenting children with a hearing loss: a scoping review

ABSTRACT

Many studies on parenting styles with children with disabilities exist; however, few investigate parenting styles of hearing parents whose children have a hearing loss. The aim of this review is to explore the limited previous literature on interventions targeting this phenomenon. Data was extracted from search engines, Ebscohost (Academic Search Complete, MedLine, PsycARTICLES, SocIndex, Greenfile, Masterfile Premier), Science Direct and Springer Link. Just five studies were found to address issues relating to parenting styles in this demographic, which is surprisingly few. Studies reviewed in this paper were conducted in the United Kingdom Israel, Germany and South Africa. These five articles describe interventions that provide hearing parents with specific knowledge and skills to parent children with a hearing loss. The findings of those studies are explained here, with the purpose being to provide direction for much needed further research into this topic.

KEYWORDS:

• Interventions
• programmes
• hearing parents
• parenting
• parenting styles and children with a hearing loss

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Ronel S. Davids is currently a PhD student in Social Work. She is employed as an Associate lecturer at the University of the Western Cape in the Social Work Department.

Prof. Nicolette V. Roman has a PhD in Psychology, is rated as an established researcher nationally, in South Africa, a Full Professor and is Director of the Child, Family and Community Studies Unit in the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. Her research focuses on the parent-child relationship to strengthen families published both locally and internationally. Professor Roman published two international books. She is a member of the Family Services Forum in the Western Cape, in South Africa.

Prof. Catherina J. Schenck is Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Western Cape since 2012. Previously she was Professor in Social Work at Unisa for 25 years. She is also a NRF rated researcher. Extensive research have been conducted on people in the informal economy in South Africa.

ORCID

Nicolette V. Roman http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4506-437X

Catherina J. Schenck http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5299-5335