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Carving out a space to act – acquired impairment and contested identity

University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Historically, rehabilitation clinics concerned with assisting those who have acquired a profound hearing loss have worked to promote practices that legitimate a culture centred on hearing and speech. Their practice of rehabilitation indicates a lack of appreciation of the social and identity issues confronting deafened adults. In consequence, deafened people have to carve out a sense of identity by developing associations and communicative strategies that validate their own way of engaging the social. Such practice encompasses the development of a dual or multiple identity centred on differing forms of communicative practice.

Key Words: cultural practices • deafness • identity

Health:, Vol. 2, No. 1, 75-90 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/136345939800200105


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