1st Edition

Deaf Children and Their Families

By Sarah Beazley, Michele C. Moore Copyright 1988
    172 Pages
    by David Fulton Publishers

    First Published in 1996. The study makes an important contribution to newly emerging participative research methodologies in that it places the parents' view of the world at the centre of the analysis and in so doing, articulates the kinds of changes they think are necessary to improve the quality of life for their families and themselves. Due to an application of a social model, the book is important not just to families with deaf children and the professionals who work with them but to anyone who has an interest in disability issues.

    Deaf children their families and professionals; discovering a child is deaf - dismantling personal tragedy; getting communication going; education matters; shared experience - overcoming barriers to ordinary family life; images and futures; what can be done?

    Biography

    Sarah Beazley, Michele Moore