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  • Models of Deafness: Cochlear Implants in the Australian Daily Press

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    Power, Des
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    Power, Des
    Year published
    2005
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    Abstract
    This article examined a database of Australian daily newspapers 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 ...
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    This article examined a database of Australian daily newspapers 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.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
    Volume
    10
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/4/451
    http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/4/451
    Copyright Statement
    © 2005 Power. This is an open access paper. The definitive publisher-authenticated version J. Deaf Stud. Deaf Educ. 2005 10: 451-459 is available online at: http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/10/4/451
    Subject
    Education
    Language, Communication and Culture
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/4245
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