Psychology 4303F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel, Audism, Learning Disability
27 Feb 2018
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4303 lecture 8 - mental health of deaf adults. Official spoken languages are english and french. In several of canada"s provinces, asl is an officially recognized minority language with legally embedded rights. Some schools don"t want sign language there, do not think sign language is a real language. Hard to accurately understand the scope of the problems and issues. Difficult to really know the extent of services given size of country. Many different resources from formal agencies, informal networks, and a few private practices. No central point of data, research, or service providers. It is extremely difficult for deaf people to enter the mental health training programs due to lack of accessibility and support service. In england, the services are all well-coordinated, but this is hard to do in canada because we are so widespread. King"s - cdeaf, goal is to network and make a centralized database of information, looking for volunteers.
