For Deaf Men and Women Ages 18-25...

So much of research focuses on negative things about being deaf - underemployment, academic difficulties, etc.  It is time to look at the positives.  I am a parent of a deaf daughter and I am very interested in studying what makes deaf people competent and successful.  If you are 18 to 25 years old and became deaf on or before age 2,  you are eligible to participate in a national research study being conducted by the University of Missouri - Columbia.

Let's tell the world what is right about being deaf!

 

The study is now closed to enrollment.  Please check back for updates on the findings. 

Many thanks and best regards,

Debbie Zand, Ph.D.

Professional Background

Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Educational Background

B.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., University of Missouri- Saint Louis

Scholarly Interests

Resilience among adolescents and emerging adults, adolescent mental health

Selected Publications  

Zand, D. (Projected Date: Summer 2009). Risk and Resilience: Adaptation in the Context of Being Deaf.

Zand, D. (n.d.). Conceptions of competence among deaf emerging adults. Manuscript in preparation.

Zand, D., & Thomson, N., Cervantes, R., Espiritu, R., Klagholz, D., LaBlanc, L., Taylor, A. (In press). The mentor youth alliance:  The role of mentoring relationships in promoting youth competence. Journal of Adolescence

Thomson, N., & Zand, D. (2007). Sex differences in the multi-dimensional self-concept of African-American adolescents: The mediating role of gender identity. Youth and Society, 38(3), 285-299.

Zand, D. Gouwens, D.L., & Evenson, D. (2006). Sex and age differences in self-reported distress among affluent adolescents in an educational counseling setting in the United States. School Psychology International, 27(5), 615-626.

Zand, D. & Thomson, N. (2005). Academic achievement among African-American adolescents: Direct and indirect effects of demographic, individual, and contextual variables. The Journal of Black Psychology, 31, 353-368.

Thomson, N. & Zand, D. (2005).  Analysis of Children’s Personal Attributes Questionnaire (Short Form) with an African-American sample. Sex Roles, 52, 237-244.

Zand, D., Thomson, N., Dugan, M., Braun, J., Holterman-Hommes, P., & Hunter, P. (2004). The  recruitment process: Factors that predict African-American adolescents’ initial engagement into an  alcohol tobacco and other drug prevention study. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse 3(2), 43-54.

Thomson, N. & Zand, D. (2002).  The Harter Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents: Psychometrics for an early adolescent African-American sample. International Journal of Testing, 2, 297-310.

Zand, D., Gouwens, D., & Evenson, R. (2001). The Saint Louis Symptom Checklist: Factor structure for an adolescent sample. Psychology in the Schools, 38, 1-7.