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Using deafness an example, discuss how psychological knowledge has influenced the support provided for children with disabilities and their families.
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ED209 TMA 05 Using deafness an example, discuss how psychological knowledge has influenced the support provided for children with disabilities and their families. Psychological and professional advice is pivotal to the development of deaf children, according to their parents. In the latest study conducted by The National Deaf Childrens Society one parent was noted to say 'that it is easy to forget that you know your own child best', with so much professional advice available, (Young et al, 2003). However, a proportion of psychological literature presents deaf people in a negative way utilising labels such as insensitive, unsociable and aggressive which in turn is utilised in how the professionals approach and advise the familles and deaf children, (Rodda and Grove, 1987). For example in the latter part of the last century deaf people such as David Heap, director for the Welsh Office was told by the education professions that he would be...
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