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Research has identified resilience as a key element to success in school. Carolyn Williamson searches out ways to develop, reinforce, and alter the factors that encourage resilience in African American deaf and hard of hearing students. To find the individual characteristics and outside influences that foster educational achievement, Williamson conducted extensive interviews with nine African American deaf and hard of hearing adults who succeeded in high school and postsecondary programs.

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"""For the past 30 years, research has often focused on the characteristics of deaf students and the obstacles they face but less on success factors. Carolyn Williamson advocates for research based on a success model. Specifically, she discusses the protective factors (caring and supportive relationships, acceptance of African-American and Deaf culture, open ongoing communication, parent involvement, high expectations and positive reinforcement, challenging educational experiences, meaningful participation, spirituality, and disciplined structure) that have contributed to the success of African-American deaf and hard-of-hearing (AA d/hh) students.""--Alvin C. Boyd ""Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education"""

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Carolyn E. Williamson is the Director of the Center for Resilience and Transition LLC in Grand Prairie, Texas, USA.

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