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Working with Deaf People. a Handbook for Healthcare Professionals
Middleton, E.
1ª Edición Noviembre 2009
Inglés
Tapa blanda
230 pags
1000 gr
12 x 19 x null cm
ISBN 9780521690850
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Description
Long gone are the days when a deaf person is expected to struggle through a
healthcare consultation with a health professional who has inadequate deaf awareness.
Legislation now dictates that the onus is on the health professional to utilise
the right communication skills. Deafness is very common, meaning that health
professionals, whatever their specialist area, can expect to encounter a client
with deafness or hearing loss on a daily basis. Working with Deaf People is
intended for use as a general reference manual, offering practical advice on
how to prepare for the consultation with clients who are deaf, deafblind or
Deaf (i.e. use sign language as their first language). Information is offered
about language, communication and culture; case studies demonstrate how the
messages can be applied in practice. Every health professional, medical and
nursing student, whatever their discipline and whatever country they work in,
should have a copy of this book.
• The first text to bring together information on communication with deaf
and deafblind clients • Case studies are used throughout the book to illustrate
specific scenarios that health professionals will be able to relate to •
Includes summary points given in boxes, allowing the reader to skim through
the text and pick up the key messages
Contents
1. Facts and figures about deafness, NF2 and deafblindness Anna Middleton, Wanda
Neary and Kerstin Möller; 2. General themes to consider when working with
deaf and hard of hearing clients Anna Middleton; 3. Specialist issues relevant
to working with d/Deaf clients Anna Middleton; 4. Specialist issues relevant
to working with clients with neurofibromatosis Type 2 Wanda Neary; 5. Specialist
issues relevant to working with clients with deafblindness Kerstin Möller;
Index.
Reviews
‘This is a brilliant book that every health professional should read as
part of their ongoing training. It is amazingly readable and gives insight into
what it is like to be deaf, or deafblind. I've worked for 17 years with deaf
people and for the first time health professionals have a book that gives them
sensible practical advice on working with deaf and deafblind people.' Steve
Powell, CEO, SignHealth, UK
‘This book presents some excellent material in a wide and complex field,
written with such clarity that it will be useful to almost any reader whatever
their background. It will be of particular value to professionals whose work
brings them into contact with people who have hearing loss, enhancing the effectiveness
of their work through ensuring that they can relate well to their clients/patients.
However, it will also be of interest to readers who themselves live with hearing
loss, helping them understand the perspectives of the professionals they encounter.'
Lorraine Gailey, CEO Hearing Concern LINK
‘This is a must-read book for all health professionals. As health provision
becomes increasingly the responsibility of individual patients making choices
about their own care and treatment, professionals working in health not only
need medical expertise but also skills in communication and information giving.
For deaf and hard of hearing patients, this requires skills not often used by
the average health professional; this book guides you through the maze of how
to understand and communicate with a wide range of deaf and hard of hearing
patients. … Well worth keeping for those times when you may be confronted
by a patient that requires different communication tactics that you have never
used before, and also for patients from other countries as you learn some of
the useful tips of interacting with patients that communicate differently.'
Paul Redfern, Disability & Diversity
‘Healthcare providers in a majority hearing/sighted society, the majority
of who are themselves hearing and sighted, are likely to be unfamiliar with
best practice when communicating with deaf or deafblind people, unless they
are working in a speciality such as audiology. This book is a handy distillation
of practical improvements that can be made in a consultation setting, many of
which can be achieved by increasing one's self-awareness of the perspective
of the person attending. The editor, Anna Middleton, has a professional background
as a genetic counsellor and therefore a good understanding, both clinically
and from a research perspective, of how clinical genetics is a particularly
sensitive area of medicine for many d/Deaf people. As a result, this book may
be of particular interest to clinical geneticists and genetic counsellors.'
Rachel Belk, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
‘This is an extremely useful manual for health professionals who interact
with deaf and deafblind people in a clinical setting. There are sections outlining
different types of hearing loss and deafness, various methods of communications
and types of communicators preferred by deaf people, as well as the historical
context of genetics and eugenics with respect to deafness. For those who have
little experience of meeting deaf people, the case studies emphasize common
pitfalls in communication, and I will be recommending the book to trainees who
are new to the field.' Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, UCL Institute of Child Health,
and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
‘This is a new, unusual and very exciting book aimed at all health professionals.
The book can serve professionals in training as a guideline into a world unknown
for many of us. The book is clearly structured and has a holistic approach including
many components of ICF. I have worked with patients with deafblindness and NF2
for over 23 years, and I realize now that this is the first book which has addressed
the basic knowledge of how to interact with people who are deaf or deafblind.
I sincerely recommend this book.' Claes Möller, University Hospital Örebro,
Sweden
'… packed with useful information … highly recommended …'
Dr Margaret du Feu, Consultant Psychiatrist, All Ireland Mental Health and Deafness
Service
Contributors
Anna Middleton, Wanda Neary, Kerstin Möller
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