Antonius van Uden

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Antonius van Uden , also Toine van Uden , (born November 17, 1912 in Budel , Noord-Brabant , Netherlands ; † September 25, 2008 in Houthem , Limburg , Netherlands) is a Dutch educator and holds a doctorate in psychology . He is considered one of the most important European deaf educators of the second half of the 20th century.

Life

Antonius Maria Johannes van Uden was ordained a priest on May 22, 1937 and began his work at the Instituut voor Doven (successor Viataal, Kentalis ) in Sint-Michielsgestel in 1938 , where he worked until 1977 and made the institute known worldwide.

In the 1950s he began education for the deaf with the aim of promoting and teaching deaf children so that they could acquire spoken and written language in order to enable them to integrate socially and professionally in the hearing society.

He was not yet able to work with children in the first years of life - during the basal language development - and hearing aid development was still in its infancy. So he developed various methods based on practice and for practice in order to get closer to his goal. He broke away from the constructive, regulated method and switched to the active, action-oriented method, where conversation is the action in language acquisition. Because the hearing aids were not yet able to support the residual hearing sufficiently, the directionality of the face was even more important than the direction of hearing. That is why the conversations were visualized and written down as reading pieces in the experience booklet or on the blackboard. At that time, deaf children were still considered to be sighted children.

As early as the 1950s, van Uden was already using sound perception to make maximum use of the remains of hearing and worked intensively with audiologists . In 1980 Sint-Michielsgestel got its own qualified audiologist thanks to his commitment.

He retired in 1977. However, he continued to work as a consultant, head of the research group and junior trainer. Between 1982 and 1994, a total of 250 participants from all over the world took part in his International Short Courses .

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Van Uden has worked as a deaf teacher, pastoral worker, doctorate in psychologist, diagnostician, scientist and lecturer. He was a pragmatist and developed his methods from practice. His best-known methods are: conversation method, reflective mother tongue method, reception and dual role, emotion and empathy, reading piece - written conversation, diary and experience book, rhythm perception via vibration sensitivity and residual hearing, music lessons: music, dance and rhythm, hearing, speaking and language.

Van Uden developed and worked with his methods at the Instituut voor Doven in St. Michielsgestel . In the school lessons at that time, supporting systems such as sound accompanying signs (LBG) and phoneme-specific manual system (PMS) were also used.

As a deaf teacher, he was convinced that the deaf child can learn through spoken language, especially through the mother's presenting language. In his method, which he called the mother tongue reflective method (MRM), the mother reproduces the child's utterances in a linguistically correct form (double role) in which she speaks melodically and clearly articulated in order to give the child the chance to refrain. The babbling of deaf children should be picked up and encouraged (catching method), whereby they should notice that they can make a difference with their sounds, even if they cannot hear them themselves. With this, the child learns - according to Van Uden - to use their hearing, that is, to be sound-directed. In addition, hearing aids (modern hearing aids, cochlear implants ) can now be used to improve hearing . This method is an expanded form of the oral method . The aim is to use an interactive language structure to acquire spoken language skills in order to be able to communicate in everyday life in order to be able to integrate into the hearing world.

His methods and concepts were extensive, coherent, coherent and self-contained. It is not the concrete, practical implementation and design based on the possibilities at the time that are sustainable, but the principles and basic ideas. Thanks to modern hearing aid technology, these are easier to use and implement than ever before. His methods can be adaptive, contemporary, and continue to be used.

He has published numerous works in Dutch, English and also in German.

Awards

  • The Theodor Hellbrügge Foundation awarded him the "Sunshine Medal - Growing Together" for his life's work.

Publications (selection)

  • A World of Language for Deaf Children . Rotterdam University Press, 1968
  • School education for deaf children . Publishing house for hearing-impaired children, 1969
  • Dove kinderen leren speak . Universitaire pers, Rotterdam 1974.
  • A world of language for deaf children. Spoken language method and psycholinguistic knowledge for the deaf education reflected in the mother tongue . Villingen 1976.
  • The deaf child. Questions about its development and promotion . Julius Groos Publishing House, Heidelberg 1980/1983/1994
  • Sign languages ​​of the deaf and psycholinguistics. A critical discussion . Julius Groos Publishing House, Heidelberg 1987.
  • The deaf child - questions about its development and support - studies on body language, phonetics, psycholinguistics and sociology . Hearing Impaired Pedagogy, Supplement 5. Julius Groos Verlag, Heidelberg 1987
  • Partial performance disorders in deaf children. Diagnosis and therapy . Julius Groos Publishing House, Heidelberg 1988.
  • with Armin Löwe : Sign languages ​​for the deaf and psycholinguistics. A critical inventory . HVA Schindele, Heid August 1996

literature

  • Frans Coninx: Toine van Uden 1912-2008. Current meaning of his life's work . Snail 62, November 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frans Coninx: Toine van Uden 1912 - 2008. Current significance of his life's work. Snail 62, November 2008
  2. ^ Theodor Hellbrügge Foundation: Sunshine Medal
personal data
SURNAME Uden, Antonius van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uden, Toine van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch educator and PhD psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Budel , North Brabant , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2008
Place of death Houthem , Limburg , Netherlands