Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability: Towards a Paradigm Change in Hearing Services
ISBN: 9781315586410
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Social Sciences; Sociology & Social Policy; Disability Studies - Sociology; Social Policy;

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.

Professor Anthony Hogan is Professor of Governance and Deputy Director at the Institute of Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is also adjunct Professor in Sociology at The Australian National University. He is a qualified welfare worker and rehabilitation counsellor with over 25 years' experience working with people with disability. He has published several textbooks and many research articles on social aspects of living with hearing difference including Hearing Rehabilitation for Deafened Adults (Whurr/Wiley, 2001), and Adult Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation (Whurr/Wiley, 2005). Dr Rebecca Phillips is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra, Australia. She is a qualified occupational therapist with specific interests in the needs of children with disability and their wellbeing.

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