Examining and discovering the challenges of deaf adolescents in acquiring their skills ability: a qualitative study

Studies have been conducted on the acquisition of self-efficacy skills and the deaf, but research that has examined and discovered the challenges of deaf adolescents in acquiring self-efficacy skills has been neglected.

The aim of the present study is to discover and examine the challenges of deaf adolescents in acquiring the skills to empower themselves.

This study was performed with qualitative approach and grounded theory method. The Research Society of Maternal Deaf Adolescents was born in 1398 in Tehran. 13 deaf teenage mothers in Tehran voluntarily participated in this study as an example. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. To analyze the data obtained from interviews with 13 mothers of deaf teenagers in Tehran Corbin and Strauss three-step coding (open, axial, and selective) was used.

Open codes around 115 concepts and core codes include nine major categories that include lack of awareness and inability of parents to deal with their children properly, abuse / harassment, self-efficacy, lack of social acceptance, inadequacy, economic, social and other limitations. Family, social inequality, problems and job constraints, problems and distortions of educational and training functions.

According to the results, it is important to pay special attention to deaf adolescents and carefully examine the challenges ahead in order to become empowered and acquire skills, which can lead to strategies to increase social skills, life skills and their overall self-empowerment.