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Deaf Awareness Week 4th - 10th May 2020


  • An estimated 900,000 people in the UK have severe or profound hearing loss.
  • There are 12 million people with hearing loss across the UK, that's around one in six of us.
  • There are 50,000 children with hearing loss in the UK. Around half are born with hearing loss while the other half lose their hearing during childhood.

The UK Council on Deafness was first founded in 1993 and is the national umbrella organisation for charities and professional bodies working in the field of deafness. Deaf Awareness Week aims to promote the positive aspects of deafness, promote social inclusion and raise awareness of the huge range of local organisations that support deaf people and their family and friends. The theme of this year's campaign is “acquired deafness”.
For more information surrounding deafness and hearing loss please visit the Deaf Council, Action on Hearing Loss and NHS websites:

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES
For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who have been affected or suffer from deafness or hearing loss, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS:
  • Mental health and deafness / Pete Hindley (Contributor), Nick Kitson (Contributor), 2000 [Place of publication not identified Whurr]. This is a Keele e-book.
  • Ballantyne's Deafness / Graham, J.M.; Ballantyne, John C. (John Chalmers); Graham, J. M. (John Malcolm); Baguley, David (David M.); 2009; 7th ed. [Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell]. This also available as a Keele and NHS e-book.
  • Hearing aids / Harvey Dillon, 2012; 2nd ed. [Sydney: Boomerang Press]
  • Hearing Loss: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment / Jos J. Eggermont, 2017 [London : Elsevier]. NHS e-book accessible via Clinical Key.

JOURNALS:
  • American annals of the deaf / Washington, D.C.: Executive Committee of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf [Available as a Keele ejournal 1996 onwards and as a NHS ejournal 1997 onwards.]
  • The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education / Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1996 onwards and as a NHS ejournal 1996 with 1 year embargo]
  • Hearing Loss: the Journal of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People / Bethesda, MD : Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2007 onwards and as a NHS ejournal 2009 - 2017]
  • Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research /  Rockville, MD : American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1997 onwards]
  • American Journal of Audiology (AJA) / Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2000 onwards]
  • Audiology and Neurotology / Karger. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2005 onwards with 1 year embargo]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
  • Bowman, Miriam Elizabeth, “The grand challenges of social work: Deaf children in the child welfare system”, Children and Youth Services Review, May 2018, Vol.88, pp.348-353. [Available via Keele ejournals.]
  • Svinndal, Elisabeth Vigrestad ; Jensen, Chris ; Rise, Marit, “Working life trajectories with hearing impairment”, Disability and Rehabilitation, 2020, Vol.42(2), pp.190-200. [Available via Keele ejournals.]
  • Ratuszniak, Anna ; Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk ; Gos, Elzbieta ; Skarzynski, Henryk, “The Bonebridge implant in older children and adolescents with mixed or conductive hearing loss: Audiological outcomes”, International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, March 2019, Vol.118, pp.97-102. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]
  • Ekberg, Katie ; Meyer, Carly ; Hickson, Louise ; Scarinci, Nerina, “Parents’ questions to clinicians within paediatric hearing habilitation appointments for children with hearing impairment”, Patient Education and Counseling, 2020, Vol.103(3), pp.491-499. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]
  • NaseriBooriAbadi, Tahereh ; Sadoughi, Farahnaz ; Sheikhtaheri, Abbas, “Improving Cancer Literacy for the Deaf Using Deaf-Tailored Educational Interventions: a Review of the Literature”, Journal of Cancer Education, 2018, Vol.33(4), pp.737-748. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]
  • Scheier, Donna B., “Barriers to health care for people with hearing loss: A review of the literature”, Journal of the New York State Nurses Association, Spring/Summer 2009, pp.4 – 10. Article currently available online.
  • Southall, Kenneth; Gagné, Jean-Pierre; Jennings, Mary Beth; “Stigma: A negative and a positive influence on help-seeking for adults with acquired hearing loss”, International Journal of Audiology, 2010, Vol.49(11), pp.804-814, DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2010.498447 . [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]
  • E. Sabroske, E.; Svoboda, M.D.; Ng, Y.-T.; “Passing the Newborn Hearing Screen Does Not Always Exclude Acquired Hearing Loss Due to Congenital Infection”, Pediatric Neurology, 2018, June, Vol.83, pp.60-61. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

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