Percepción social de la sordera en el entorno escolar: proceso de elaboración de un cuestionario de evaluación

Abstract

This article analyzes the results of a pilot study of the application of a proposed questionnaire on social perception of deafness in the primary and secondary education setting. The first part of the article discusses the rationale for evaluating the integration of deaf girls and boys in mainstream schools and the suitability of the questionnaire for this purpose. The second part describes the process of drafting the items covering aspects such as the quality of communication, social perceptions of deafness from the point of view of the hearing person, deaf students’ self-esteem and the degree of social integration they can attain. The third part analyzes the results obtained when the questionnaire was first applied to an experimental sample. Based on these results, we propose a new version of the questionnaire to be used in subsequent studies, with the possibility of relating data to independent variables (social integration and principle communication modalities, social characteristics of the population, etc.) in order to improve decision making in mainstream school programs.