Citation

Embry RA, Grossman FD. Am. Ann. Deaf 2007; 151(5): 488-498.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Conference of Educational Administration Serving the Deaf and Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Publisher Gallaudet University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17461254

Abstract

There is increasingly strong evidence that children with disabilities are at higher risk for maltreatment when compared to children without disabilities. There is also concern about the adequacy of child welfare services for children and parents with disabilities, particularly those disabilities that result in a communication impairment. This article describes a successful community practice effort in Los Angeles County that resulted in the establishment of a comprehensive array of linguistically and culturally competent child abuse prevention and treatment services for the maltreated deaf child and for the deaf parent at risk for child abuse perpetration. Social movement theory is used to analyze a change effort that was developed and implemented by a broad coalition of members of the Deaf and hearing communities. Elements of the problem, social movement theory, the coalition, the change strategy, and the results are described.

Language: en