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Information Challenges of the Deaf in their Health and Social Care Needs

Information Challenges of the Deaf in their Health and Social Care Needs

Cayley Guimarães, Diego Roberto Antunes, Laura Sánchez García, Sueli Fernandes
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466639867|ISBN10: 1466639865|EISBN13: 9781466639874
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch005
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Guimarães, Cayley, et al. "Information Challenges of the Deaf in their Health and Social Care Needs." Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 93-111. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch005

APA

Guimarães, C., Antunes, D. R., García, L. S., & Fernandes, S. (2013). Information Challenges of the Deaf in their Health and Social Care Needs. In M. Cruz-Cunha, I. Miranda, & P. Gonçalves (Eds.), Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services (pp. 93-111). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch005

Chicago

Guimarães, Cayley, et al. "Information Challenges of the Deaf in their Health and Social Care Needs." In Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Isabel Maria Miranda, and Patricia Gonçalves, 93-111. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch005

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Abstract

The members of the deaf communities have been excluded for many years from society and their own culture. Deaf culture is a term applied to the social movement that holds deafness to be a difference in human experience (which includes the right to use Sign Language) rather than a disability. The deaf suffer, daily, through life-threatening situations that go unattended, mostly due to lack of awareness, proper practices, and policies, among others. The Deaf are in dire need of acknowledgment of their plight, in particular by Health and Social Care practitioners, politicians, and researchers. This chapter calls attention to this minority and its needs, including social, political, citizenship, strategies, and polices dimensions. It presents a Human-Computer Interaction architecture with which to inform the design of Information and Communication Technologies to aid Health and Social Care professionals in their work with the deaf.

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