Most human beings have a family which is a basic social unit. During childhood most human beings acquire basic social interactions from their parents and/or family members. Especially, communication is an important social interaction in human societies. However, about 90% of the deaf children is born from hearing parents. Therefore the deaf children have experienced in difficult time because of communication mode. During young childhood, the deaf children cannot understand what their parents want or say, whereas the parents cannot recognize what their children want also. when the deaf children use sign Ianguage, their parents do not know the sign language which is a language mode in deaf community.
The purpose of this study was to analyze the correlation between Kinetic Family Drawing(KFD) test scores and communication needs for the deaf children in their family environments. The subjects were ten deaf children who have parents and family. The children drew a picture for KFD test. To analyze the deaf children’s attitudes toward communication modes and growing backgrounds, individual interview and a questionnaire were utilized. The results of the questionnaire, the five-Likert scale was used. In the test negative aspects were pointed in 0, and positive factors were given in 1 point. Interactions in figure actions, the score of the interactions with famíly was 23, and the score of the interactions with the drawers was 27. The score of the devices in styles was 43. In the part of dynamics, the score of the distance was 57, the score related with omission of family members was 23, and the score related with description of the other peop1e who are not family member was 30. The correlation between the results of the inclividual interviews and the scores of the KFD was not significant
This results indicated that: (a) the deaf children felt communication difficulties with their hearing parents; and (b) in one-way ANOV A and correlation, the interactions with family and the score of the interactions wíth the drawers in survey results had significant scores with the interactions with family and the interactions with the drawers in KFD scores.
Therefore the parents who have young deaf child have to consider how to interact with their child naturally when the parents and/or the child need something in home environments. Also, the parents of the deaf children have to know sign language which is a unique language for the deaf.