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Professional Responsibility and Relationality in Deaf Education book cover

1st Edition

Professional Responsibility and Relationality in Deaf Education

Edited By Michele Friedner, Rachel O'Neill, Kristin Snoddon Copyright 2026
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge
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This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the concepts and practices of professionalism, responsibility, and relationality in the context of deaf education. Internationally, public attention has been drawn to professional and ethical ruptures and crises in early intervention and education for deaf children. These ruptures and crises both demonstrate a failure in organizations’ duty... Read more

1. Introduction: Professional responsibility and relationality in deaf education

Michele Friedner, Rachel O’Neill and Kristin Snoddon

 

2. Guiding principles and codes of practice: Do teachers of deaf children and young people need them?

Rachel O’Neill, Eildh Rose McEwan and Rob Wilks

 

3. Immigrant deaf students in the United States: Linguistic injustices brought to light

Erin Mellett

 

4. The technology or the child? Moving beyond technological fixes in deaf education in India and elsewhere

Michele Friedner

 

5. Applying relational autonomy in US special education: Educators’ role in supporting parents’ decisions for deaf or hard-of-hearing children

Kristella Montiegel and Sara A. Goico

 

6. Possible beings: Deaf children and linguistic justice

Kristin Snoddon

Biography

Michele Friedner is Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, United States.

Rachel O’Neill is a senior lecturer in deaf education at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and co- ordinates the pathway through the MSc in Inclusive Education for teachers of deaf children.

Kristin Snoddon is Professor with the School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.

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