Toward a social relational model of Deaf childhood
Año:
2014
Editorial:
Disability & Society, Vol. 29, nº 4 (2014)
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Temas
Educación » Adquisición y desarrollo del lenguaje
Detalles
This paper advances a social relational model of Deaf childhood as a guiding framework for working with Deaf children in a present-day universal neonatal hearing screening and early intervention context. The authors discuss how Deaf children are contextualized in a medical model discourse, in a social model of Deaf childhood, and in a Deaf culture discourse. A social relational model is then discussed in with reference to a capability approach and to findings from the first author’s study of parents and young children participating in an American Sign Language shared reading program in Ontario, Canada.