Abstract
Despite the fact that people with hearing disability have been stigmatised across millennia, the implications of such a finding have not made their way into the design of many hearing services. Despite this systemic and well-resourced resistance to change, scholars, clinicians and community based service providers from across the western world continue to grapple with the psycho-social impacts of hearing disability. It is evident to many that there is a critical social element(s) to hearing disability. But exactly what is this element? How is it to be understood, explained and justified in academic, clinical, economic and human terms?
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability |
| Subtitle of host publication | Towards a Paradigm Change in Hearing Services |
| Editors | Anthony Hogan, Rebecca Phillips |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing Limited |
| Pages | 49-68 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781472453211 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781472453204 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |