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Author Hogan, Anthony, author.

Title Hearing impairment and hearing disability : towards a paradigm change in hearing services / edited by Anthony Hogan and Rebecca Phillips
Published Farnham : Ashgate, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (168 pages)
Series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
Interdisciplinary disability studies.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Hearing as a Social Issue; 2 Stigma and its Consequences for Social Identity ; 3 The Emergence of the Social Perspective in Hearing Services; 4 The Need for Paradigm Change; 5 Engaging in Change at a Personal Level -- the Importance of Learning to be Affected; 6 Societal Change: Towards a More Comprehensive Re-structuring of Hearing Services; References; Appendix; Index; Series Information
Summary The purpose of this book is to challenge people (service providers, people with a hearing disability and those who advocate for them) to reconsider the way western society thinks about hearing disability and the way it seeks to 'include them'. It highlights the concern that the design of hearing services is so historically marinated in ableist culture that service users often do not realise they may be participating in their own oppression within a phono-centric society. With stigma and marginalisation being the two most critical issues impacting on people with hearing disability, Hogan and
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Subject Deaf -- Services for.
Deaf -- Social conditions
Hearing impaired -- Services for.
Hearing impaired -- Social conditions
Sociology of disability.
Hearing Disorders -- psychology
Persons With Hearing Impairments -- psychology
Health Services for Persons with Disabilities
Correction of Hearing Impairment -- psychology
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Deaf -- Services for
Deaf -- Social conditions
Hearing impaired -- Services for
Sociology of disability
Form Electronic book
Author Hogan, Anthony, editor.
Phillips, Rebecca, editor
Sherry, Mark, Dr
ISBN 9781472453211
1472453212