Enhancing Services for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deafblind Patients in Rural America
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Description
Discusses the barriers to care that rural patients who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind face, including lack of accommodations and inadequate clinician training. Features a Michigan clinic with American Sign Language-fluent staff, a New Jersey state division providing deaf sensitivity training, and a Colorado program that brings interpreters to rural communities.
Author(s)
Allee Mead
Citation
Rural Monitor
Date
10/2019
Type
Document
Organization
Rural Health Information Hub
Tagged as
Access · Culture and cultural competency · Health workforce education and training · Hearing impairment · People with disabilities · Vision impairment · Colorado · Michigan · New Jersey