Here you will find information relating to Deaf People's access to the healthcare professions. Use the links in the index (left) to navigate this page. If you find any errors, or want to add to the page, please email David Wright.
Arndorfer B. 2001 Silencing doubters Gainesville Sun. Saturday, May 26, 2001. Reprinted on the Association of Medical Practitioners with Hearing Loss web site.
The supercharged stethoscope hanging from his neck and the high-tech heartbeat detector in his bag give Dr. Mike McKee an air of the physician of the future. But the instruments really are just tools to help McKee, who is deaf, be the old-fashioned kind of doctor he wants to be.
Cromwell J. 2005 Training Deaf Psychologists
http://www.jimcromwell.com/brain/2005/07/training-deaf-psychologists.html
Taken from the chapter in Austen S, Crocker S [Eds]. 2004 "Deafness in Mind: Working Psychologically with Deaf People Across the Lifespan" Whurr, London. (ISBN: 186156404X).
Deaf and Hearing Impaired Peoples' access to Nurse Education: The Barriers (April 1999) [PDF]
Educational opportunities for deaf people ENB 1999 Report from the ENB NEWS (newsletter) April: [Note the ENB no longer exists] [PDF]
Evidence for the support of deaf people as psychiatric nurses (April 1999) [PDF]
Deaf Peoples' Access to Nurse Education (1997 (Updated December 1999))
This paper is currently only available for download [PDF]
Deaf people to qualify as nurses. British Deaf News April 1995, page 5 [PDF].
Issues arising from a proposal for deaf persons to have access to nurse education
Paper presented to the conference: Progress through equality. British Society for Mental Health and Deafness Manchester University, England (9-10 September 1994) [PDF]
Klein H. The Deaf person as therapist. Department of Geriatric Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School.
When thinking of professionals working within the mental health field, we tend to assume that they will be hearing. This has traditionally been the case, as Deaf people were denied access to formal training and qualifications.
O'Meara S. 2004 A Woman of Many Firsts: The remarkable journey of Audrey Schaellibaum, RN
Outline of a woman's life experience to becoming a Nurse (USA).
Newschannel 5 KSDK TV St. Louis, Missouri, USA SLU Medical School Withdraws Medical School Acceptance For Deaf Student (Accessed 8 August 2002)
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=28681.
Also at USA-L_News: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USA-L_News/message/7701
Dreams of becoming a doctor could be stalled for Aruna. She's got the grades but not the hearing to qualify. Aruna, born deaf, included this information in the application to St. Louis University, and was accepted onto the program. When Aruna asked for accommodations, the school decided she did not qualify for its medical school.
Nursing Times 1996 Nurse training for deaf students set up. Nursing Times 92(28) 6, March [PDF]
The ENB have given the go-ahead to a proposal.
RNID (WWW) How to describe deaf people http://www.rnid.org.uk/html/info_factsheets_stop.htm
Not a paper about Deaf Peoples' access but about how to describe Deaf people. The site starts: "You may be writing about deaf people, rather than for them. Choose your words with care". How health care professionals describe Deaf and Hearing Impaired people is important.
Salford University Nursing Pioneers: Unique Opportunity for Deaf Students http://www.salford.ac.uk/news/details/52
Salford has launched Europe's first Nursing course for deaf students as part of the Government's Making a Difference Strategy. One of the driving forces behind the new initiative has been nominated for one of 16 prestigious Nursing Standard 2000 awards. Naomi Sharples (n.sharples@salford.ac.uk), project leader, has achieved second place in the Mental Health Awards for her contribution to developing the first Nursing training programme for deaf people.Also see http://www.nursing.salford.ac.uk/Programmes/deafaccess.php
Smith M. 2001 Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Health Sciences Programs NWSRD Conference proceedings Western Oregon University (formerly the Northwest Outreach Center) www.wou.edu/education/sped/nwoc/smith.htm [text is a by-product of real-time captioning]
Deaf and hard of hearing students in health sciences programs. One of 22 federal higher education grants in the USA. The grants are in their second year. The focus of the grants is on improving the retention of students with disabilities in higher education.
Deaf Peoples' access to nurse education time line: Outline of events leading up to Deaf Peoples' to nursing project.
Biehn G. 1979 Psychiatric illness in physicians Canadian Medical Journal 2; 1342.
Bueche MN, Haxton D. 1983 The student with hearing loss: coping strategies Nurse Educator 8(4); 7-11.
Carlisle D 1989 Deaf, but not disabled Nursing Times 85(47) 66-7
Third-year student nurse Jane Newton is battling against the odds to prove that her disability will not prevent her from being a competent professional Nurse. She tells Daloni Carlisle her story.
Chickasonz G, Keller Beach E, Fox J 1983 Educating a deaf nursing student Nursing and Health Care 4(6) 327-32, June
David N, Colaizzi F, Allen D. 1986 Adapting to the hearing impaired dental student Journal of Dental Education 50; 268-9.
Egan D 1994 Kate's on casualty See Hear Nov. 10-1
(link is to the TV programme - the journal is now called One-in Seven, see the RNID web site).
Gavin A. 1980 Meeting the challenge of professional social work: Education of the hearing impaired American Annals of the Deaf 125; 1086-90. December.
Hull K. 1980 Should handicapped people be allowed to attend nursing school? Nursing Law & Ethics 1(3): 1, 4, 8.
Reviews the Davis case findings and outlines the implications for schools of nursing. [The Davis case was where a severely hearing impaired student was denied admission to a registered nursing program on the basis of her disability after working as a practical nurse.].
Hibberd JM 1998 Deafness and the multidisciplinary team meeting: a case of management by serendipity British Journal of Occupational Therapy 61(7): 323-4.
Jones K. 1998 Being an RN Home Healthcare Nurse 16(9): 648.
Jones comments on her personal experience of being a nurse who acquired a hearing impairment. Jones describes why she believes nurses with disabilities add insight to caring for persons with disabilities because of their own lived-experiences.
Kyle J. 1996 Issues of deaf hearing professional relations IN Laurenzi C, Ridgeway S. (Eds). 1996 Progress through equality: New perspectives in the field of mental health and deafness. BSMHD Publications. pp: 75-80.
Libman G. 1983 Doctor who overcomes deafness Synapse 4(5); 2-3.
Rhodes RS, Davis DC, Odom BC 1999 Challenges and rewards of educating a profoundly deaf student Nurse Educator 24(3); 48-51.
A faculty that initially resisted the concept of educating a 'deaf nurse' developed creative teaching strategies and ultimately gained a new perspective regarding who has the potential to become a nurse. 'The student was not only our student, but our teacher'.
Rice T 1989 The quiet life Nursing Standard 26(3) 36-7, March 25.
Mary Aitchison works as an X-ray nurse, despite being completely deaf. She spoke to Tim Rice about her unusual lifestyle
Stephen H 1999 Six-pack to open the way? Nursing Standard 13(34) 13, May 12.
NHS funding could launch a pilot scheme to train the first half-dozen deaf nurses.
Winland-Brown JE. Pohl C. 1990 Administrators' attitudes toward hiring disabled nurses Journal of Nursing Administration 20(4):24-7, Apr.
An accessible but previously untapped market for staff is disabled registered nurses. The authors report the results of a survey sent to nursing home and hospital administrators assessing their attitudes toward hiring disabled RNs. The differences between nurse administrators and non-nurse administrators were significant. The authors suggest strategies to incorporate disabled nurses into the work force.
UK Health Professionals with Hearing Loss
http://www.hphl.org.uk/
A web site for health professional with any sort of hearing loss, with the aims to provide information and create a network of UK health professionals with hearing loss
Promoting Awareness in Healthcare, Medical and Deaf [PAH, MD]
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/stdnt/pahmd/
A volunteer organization of medical students, deaf and hard of hearing healthcare recipients, healthcare providers, medical school faculty, and advocates.
Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses [AMPHL]
http://www.amphl.org
AMPHL provides information, promotes advocacy deaf and hard of hearing people who are interested in or working in health care fields.
DEMOS: Deaf People's Access to Nurse Education Project
http://jarmin.com/demos/resource/nurse/index.html
Naomi Sharples, Nurse Tutor at the University of Salford, describes some of the project management issues surrounding an innovative project to recruit deaf people into Mental Health Nursing
See Salford University above.PepNet: http://216.17.14.151/cover.htm
The Orientation is an introductory course designed for higher educational professionals who work with students who are deaf or hard of hearing. It explains issues relevant to communication and learning in postsecondary education:
It's a US site and registration is required to use it, but it might be useful.For issues around employment see: World Wide Web Links
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