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Models of Deafness: Cochlear Implants in the Australian Daily Press.
- Source :
- Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education; Fall2005, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p451-459, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- This article examined a database of Australian daily news- papers on the terms cochlear implant and deaf children to investigate how journalists and columnists report competing models of deafness: as either "medical" (deafness is a condition to be cured) or "sociocultural" (deafness provides a way of life to be lived). The results from the cochlear implant search favored a medical model, but the results from the deaf children search were more balanced, with a slight preponderance of articles favoring the sociocultural model. A number of representative quotes from articles in each model are provided and discussion entered into as to the possible effects of the articles on public reactions to deafness and especially hearing parental responses to the birth of a deaf child and the life choices that this event presents them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COCHLEAR implants
DEAFNESS
NEWSPAPERS
DEAF children
JOURNALISM
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10814159
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 18187652
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/eni042