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Wellbeing as Capability: Findings in Hearing-Impaired Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hearing Aid or Cochlear Implant

In the Western world, for deaf and hard-of-hearing children, hearing aids or cochlear implants are available to provide access to sound, with the overall goal of increasing their wellbeing. If and how this goal is achieved becomes increasingly multifarious when these children reach adolescence and y...

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Autores principales: Rijke, Wouter J., Vermeulen, Anneke M., Willeboer, Christina, Knoors, Harry E. T., Langereis, Margreet C., van der Wilt, Gert Jan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9261909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35814130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.895868
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author Rijke, Wouter J.
Vermeulen, Anneke M.
Willeboer, Christina
Knoors, Harry E. T.
Langereis, Margreet C.
van der Wilt, Gert Jan
author_facet Rijke, Wouter J.
Vermeulen, Anneke M.
Willeboer, Christina
Knoors, Harry E. T.
Langereis, Margreet C.
van der Wilt, Gert Jan
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description In the Western world, for deaf and hard-of-hearing children, hearing aids or cochlear implants are available to provide access to sound, with the overall goal of increasing their wellbeing. If and how this goal is achieved becomes increasingly multifarious when these children reach adolescence and young adulthood and start to participate in society in other ways. An approach to wellbeing that includes personal differences and the relative advantages and disadvantages that people have, is the capability approach, as developed by Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. Capability is the set of real opportunities people have to do and be things they have reason to value. We interviewed 59 young people, aged 13 through 25, with cochlear implants (37) or hearing aids (22) to capture their capability. We found that their hearing devices enabled them to actively participate in a predominantly hearing society, with few differences between cochlear implant and hearing aid recipients. They did, however, report challenges associated with prejudices and expectations, and with feeling poorly understood, all of which appeared to impact their capability. Through the lens of capability, alleged differences between hearing aid and cochlear implant recipients began to fade. We discuss the implications for initiatives focused on the long-term support young recipients of hearing devices to meet their specific requirements over time.
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spelling pubmed-92619092022-07-08 Wellbeing as Capability: Findings in Hearing-Impaired Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hearing Aid or Cochlear Implant Rijke, Wouter J. Vermeulen, Anneke M. Willeboer, Christina Knoors, Harry E. T. Langereis, Margreet C. van der Wilt, Gert Jan Front Psychol Psychology In the Western world, for deaf and hard-of-hearing children, hearing aids or cochlear implants are available to provide access to sound, with the overall goal of increasing their wellbeing. If and how this goal is achieved becomes increasingly multifarious when these children reach adolescence and young adulthood and start to participate in society in other ways. An approach to wellbeing that includes personal differences and the relative advantages and disadvantages that people have, is the capability approach, as developed by Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. Capability is the set of real opportunities people have to do and be things they have reason to value. We interviewed 59 young people, aged 13 through 25, with cochlear implants (37) or hearing aids (22) to capture their capability. We found that their hearing devices enabled them to actively participate in a predominantly hearing society, with few differences between cochlear implant and hearing aid recipients. They did, however, report challenges associated with prejudices and expectations, and with feeling poorly understood, all of which appeared to impact their capability. Through the lens of capability, alleged differences between hearing aid and cochlear implant recipients began to fade. We discuss the implications for initiatives focused on the long-term support young recipients of hearing devices to meet their specific requirements over time. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9261909/ /pubmed/35814130 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.895868 Text en Copyright © 2022 Rijke, Vermeulen, Willeboer, Knoors, Langereis and van der Wilt. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Rijke, Wouter J.
Vermeulen, Anneke M.
Willeboer, Christina
Knoors, Harry E. T.
Langereis, Margreet C.
van der Wilt, Gert Jan
Wellbeing as Capability: Findings in Hearing-Impaired Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hearing Aid or Cochlear Implant
title Wellbeing as Capability: Findings in Hearing-Impaired Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hearing Aid or Cochlear Implant
title_full Wellbeing as Capability: Findings in Hearing-Impaired Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hearing Aid or Cochlear Implant
title_fullStr Wellbeing as Capability: Findings in Hearing-Impaired Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hearing Aid or Cochlear Implant
title_full_unstemmed Wellbeing as Capability: Findings in Hearing-Impaired Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hearing Aid or Cochlear Implant
title_short Wellbeing as Capability: Findings in Hearing-Impaired Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hearing Aid or Cochlear Implant
title_sort wellbeing as capability: findings in hearing-impaired adolescents and young adults with a hearing aid or cochlear implant
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9261909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35814130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.895868
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