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A paper which looks at some of the communication barriers facing deaf children, using the social model of disability, and considering the kinds of therapy, support and educational facilities available to deaf children. Bibliography lists 4 sources
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of barriers to communication which are suffered by deaf children, it is perhaps not so obvious to those who work with the deaf, whether in the medical, social care or
education fields, quite how difficult to assess and overcome such barriers might be, or what areas of the childrens lives they might affect. Elder (1993), for example, expresses the view
that deaf children might well be more susceptible to sexual abuse because of communication difficulties, which lead to isolation and hence make them potential victims of abusers who take advantage
of this. The RNID (2004) notes that deaf children may have a greater chance of being bullied in school, not only because of their difference from other children but also,
ironically, because their difficulties in communication make it harder for them to express themselves about the bullying itself.
Beasley et al (2001) examine the issues through the social model of disability, which approaches the topic from the
perspective of the interaction between the disabled and the able-bodied majority in society. It is a model which focuses on the way that mainstream society excludes and isolates the disabled,
rather than concentrating on the disabled individual as having "deficits" within themselves (the medical model). They look at the way that the child interacts with his or her environment, and
how changes can be introduced into that environment in order to facilitate communication. For example, the home environment needs to be taken into account when considering the best way to
improve communication. As Beazley et
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