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Deaf Qualitative Health Research: Leveraging Technology to Conduct Linguistically and Sociopolitically Appropriate Methods of Inquiry

Anderson, Melissa L
Riker, Timothy
Gagne, Kurt
Hakulin, Stephanie
Higgins, Todd
Meehan, Jonah
Stout, Elizabeth
Pici-D’Ottavio, Emma
Cappetta, Kelsey
Wolf Craig, Kelly S.
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One of the most understudied health disparity populations in the United States is the Deaf community-a sociolinguistic minority group of at least 500,000 individuals who communicate using American Sign Language. Research within this population is lacking, in part, due to researchers' use of methodologies that are inaccessible to Deaf sign language users. Traditional qualitative methods were developed to collect and analyze participants' spoken language. There is, therefore, a paradigm shift that must occur to move from an auditory data schema to one that prioritizes the collection and analysis of visual data. To effectively navigate this shift when working with Deaf sign language users, there are unique linguistic and sociopolitical considerations that should be taken into account. The current article explores these considerations and outlines an emerging method of conducting qualitative analysis that, we argue, has the potential to enhance qualitative researchers' work regardless of the population of focus.

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Qual Health Res. 2018 Sep;28(11):1813-1824. doi: 10.1177/1049732318779050. Epub 2018 Jun 11. Link to article on publisher's site

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10.1177/1049732318779050
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