The Accessible Information Standard and the Deaf community

Deaf people often struggle to access healthcare services, which can have a detrimental effect on their health. The Accessible Information Standard identifies that services need to ask everyone referred to them about communication needs and meet those needs. For the Deaf community, meeting communicat...

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Published inMental health practice Vol. 20; no. 6; pp. 24 - 26
Main Author Walls, Rebecca
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London RCN Publishing Company Limited 09.03.2017
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Subjects
Access to information
Communication
Deafness
Handicapped accessibility
Interpreters
Language
Mental disorders
Mental health
Quality
Text messaging
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:Deaf people often struggle to access healthcare services, which can have a detrimental effect on their health. The Accessible Information Standard identifies that services need to ask everyone referred to them about communication needs and meet those needs. For the Deaf community, meeting communication needs requires more than just ensuring a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter is present at appointments.
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ISSN:1465-8720
2047-895X
DOI:10.7748/mhp.2017.e1178