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Toward a social relational model of Deaf childhood
- Authors:
- SNODDON Kristin, UNDERWOOD Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 29(4), 2014, pp.530-542.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
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 contextualised 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 programme in Ontario, Canada. (Edited publisher abstract)