Professionals

Deafax Deafax empowers deaf people by offering new approaches and innovative resources. From educative and visual resources for deaf people themselves, to specialist packages for professionals and service providers. On producing a resource, we create a workshop or training package around it. We improve access and equality for deaf people, in all walks of life. Our methods can remove barriers to achievement enabling deaf people to fulfil their ambitions and integrate into the wider community.

Audiology: An Introduction for Teachers and Other Professionals This book is an introduction to audiology for those who have little or no knowledge of the subject. It introduces basic aspects of audiology in a clear and accessible way. This initial knowledge is then developed to a depth which allows the reader to access more specialised journals and textbooks.

£21.99

Deafness and Mental Health 'A welcome insight into the little-recognised difficulties of deaf people who experience mental health problems'.

£19.99

Psychological Processes in Deaf Children with Complex Needs: An Evidence-Based Practical Guide "Psychological Processes in Deaf Children with Complex Needs" is a concise and authoritative guide for professionals working with deaf children and their families.

£18.99

Deafness and Challenging Behaviour – The 360 Perspective Challenging behaviours, such as aggression and violence, are more common in deaf people than hearing people. Filling a crucial gap in the international market, this book will appeal equally to those who work occasionally or entirely with Deaf or hearing impaired client groups of all ages.

£31.99

Analysing Sign Language Poetry This is the very first book to look at sign language poetry. It treats sign language poetry in the same analytical way as spoken poetry, providing a 'toolbox' for poetic analysis; analyzes poems in both British and American Sign Language; and, includes many illustrations taken from video and TV performances of sign language poetry.

£19.99

Constructing Deafness For anyone interested in deafness this is a really good read. It is a collection of essays and articles from a wide range of writers, covering perspectives on deafness, the Deaf community, psychological perspectives, audiology and technology, education, the status of sign language, social welfare and the potrayal of deaf people in the media.

£25.00

Deafness in Mind: Working Psychologically With Deaf People across the Lifespan This book looks at the varying theoretical approaches to the psychology of deafness: systemic, bio-psycho-social, psychodynamic, medical and cognitive neuropsychological models. It links clinical theory and practice to provide a comprehensive understanding of the deaf mental health field.

£58.20

Mental health and Deafness: A Multidisciplinary Handbook This work covers a wide range of mental-health issues as they relate to deafness. The book is an introductory text to mental health and deaf people for care workers and mental health workers, both those familiar with deaf people but not with mental health and those familiar with mental health, but not with deaf people.

£74.99

Mental Health Care of Deaf People – A Culturally Affirmative Approach A comprehensive clinical guide of interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health professionals and administrators.

£64.00

Occupational Audiometry: Monitoring and Protecting Hearing at Work This book gives occupational health nurses everything they need to know about setting up and managing hearing conservation programmes, as well as how to carry out the audiometric tests.

£31.99

Let's Sign BSL Early Years Curriculum TUTOR BOOK with CD The Student Book is required course material for all those attending the courses. A landmark publication of an Introductory course to BSL in Early Years settings - developed and piloted over a 2 and a half year period, primarily by Deaf tutors for Deaf tutors in education - a much-needed resource. The documentation includes Tutor book with detailed course outlines, plans and materials plus a CD with additional materials - for a 10 week course of 1 hour or 5 weeks of 2 hours.

£23.50

Open Your Eyes – Deaf Studies Talking This is a deaf studies work – it looks at a variety of deaf issues including the physical and cultural boundaries of deaf places, deaf identities and the impacts of sexuality, gender and disability. It looks at the role of sensory perception in building communities and tackles the challenge of ‘labels’.

£14.00

Teaching Children Who are Deafblind : Contact, Communication and Learning Written for practitioners from a variety of backgrounds, this text is intended for teachers, residential staff and students who wish to understand more about the education of children and young people who are deafblind.

£28.00