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Barriers and enablers for social inclusion of deaf children

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2021): julio - noviembre 2021
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.0.61292

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Successful social inclusion (SI) is a shared goal for social policies and their implementation for people with disabilities. The SI measurement is varied amongst health, educational and social-economic settings. In deaf children (DC), the existence of a clinical and sociocultural perspective of deafness involves various approaches to SI, which affects the perception of intervention success and makes the possibility of a common trajectory more complex. The aim of this article is to describe the perceptions of success regard SI from professionals, experts and parents/carers from the Basque Country of Spain and the Metropolitan Region of Chile. The article is based on a secondary qualitative analysis from excerpts of 27 semi-structured interviews from participants in the aforementioned regions. The analysis was centred on the following three categories: 1) successful trajectory for social inclusion,2) barriers and 3) facilitators. The results show different perceptions of IS. The access to the information, economic resources, hearing aids industry and services organization are considered barriers to the IS. Targeted policies and linked work to DC might enable better trajectory for IS.

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Social Inclusion, Deafness, Hearing Impairment

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Bustos-Rubilar, M., Celedón Hidalgo, N., & Junge Cerda, P. (2021). Barriers and enablers for social inclusion of deaf children: Perceptions from the Basque Country of Spain and the Metropolitan Region of Chile. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 7(2), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.0.61292
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Journal Studies of Public Policy
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Universidad de Chile
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