Chapter 7: Formulating (Dis)Ability
In Chapter 7, Tsung-Lun Alan Wan uses Critical Discursive Psychology to analyze how Hard of Hearing adults in Taiwan construct Cochlear Implants (CIs) as superior to Hearing Aids (HAs). The author demonstrates that participants frame HAs as shameful symbols of disability, while positioning CIs as desirable technologies that confer an "abled" identity. Wan argues that this discourse establishes a binary between the "abled" CI user and "disabled" HA user, ultimately reinforcing the ideology of audism and the medical model of disability.
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Chapter 2: Problematizing the Binary: A Poststructural Understanding of Dis/Ability in Schools
Chapter 3: Exploring the Rhetoric of ‘Burden’
Chapter 4: Negotiating (Dis)ability in the Context of Chronic Pain Rehabilitation: Challenges for Patients and Practitioners
Chapter 5: The Discursive Construction of Severe Dis/Ability in One School in the Southeastern United States
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Chapter 7: Formulating (Dis)Ability
Chapter 8: Intersections of Discursive Psychology and Disability Studies
Chapter 9: Using Discursive Psychology (DP) in Special Education & Mental Health
Chapter 10 - Engaging Disability Studies (DS) & Discursive Psychology (DP)
Current issues with cochlear implants
Cochlear Implant Surgeries
An individual has a type of hearing loss caused by damaged sensory cells in the inner ear, which are responsible for converting sound vibrations into neural signals. However, their auditory nerve, which transmits signals from the inner ear to the brain, is fully functional. Considering the mechanism of a cochlear implant, why is it a suitable intervention for this specific condition?
Chapter 7: Formulating (Dis)Ability
Current issues with hearing aids
What influences hearing aid price?
Chapter 7: Formulating (Dis)Ability