Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability: Towards a Paradigm Change in Hearing Services

✍ Scribed by Anthony Hogan; Rebecca Phillips

• Publisher: Ashgate
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 168
• Series: Interdisciplinary disability studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 Phillips document both the collective and personal impacts of such marginality. In so doing, the book brings forward an argument for a paradigm shift in hearing services. Drawing upon the latest research and policy work, the book opens up a conceptual framework for a new approach to hearing services and looks at the kinds of personal and systemic changes a paradigm shift would entail.

✦ Table of 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