Safety with strangers : a preventive program for deaf children

• Main Author: McIntyre, Christy Rae
• Format: Others
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1984
• Subjects: Child abuse Prevention; Children and strangers; Deaf children Education; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/477; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1476&context=uop_etds

The present study addresses two major issues . First, the need for children to develop the skills necessary t o prevent themselves fro m being molested. Second, the need for hearing impaired children to receive the same information, coping s kills, and defense strategies as their hearing counterparts. The "Safety with Strangers slide series was presented in classrooms of hearing impaired students at both the middle school level and elementary school level. Program trainers gave students information regarding stranger approaches, demonstrated the safe, appropriate (role-modeling) and gave the children opportunities to practice these safe, appropriate behaviors (behavioral rehearsal). This program was extremely effective with the middle school students, while there was no treatment effect with the younger children.