Measuring the attitudes of human service professionals toward deafness

Alexandra Cooper, John Rose*, Oliver Mason

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

HE ATTITUDES TO DEAFNESS SCALE is a 22-item measure of attitudes toward people who are deaf designed for use with human service professionals. Attitude statements were generated from personal accounts by deaf people in the literature and from a focus group in which deaf people discussed their experience of hearing people's attitudes toward them. A 60-item scale was administered to a group of 121 clinical and forensic psychologists during their training. Item analysis was conducted to select items that effectively distinguished participants with a positive attitude from those with a negative attitude toward deaf people. The scale may be used in any context where a professional group comes into contact with people who are deaf.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)385-389
Number of pages5
JournalAmerican Annals of the Deaf
Volume148
Issue number5
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2003

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Rehabilitation
  • General Health Professions
  • Education

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