Anti-Tobacco Programming: Reaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing ...

• Main Author: University Of California Office Of The President
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of California Office of the President 2024
• Subjects: Pacific; aleut; eskimo*; Eskimo–Aleut
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17920/g94m5j; https://rgpogrants.ucop.edu/files/1614305/f480589/index.html

Although much has been learned about smoking patterns, programming, and barriers to program delivery among hearing youth, little has been learned about young people who are deaf. Deaf Californians of all ages have been largely ignored in terms of tobacco- related research, despite the fact that there are not only more deaf or hard-of-hearing persons (2.3 million) in California than there are Native American/ Eskimo/Aleut (24,000) or African Americans (2.1 million), and nearly as many as the State's entire population of Asian and Pacific Islanders (2.7 million), but also the number of deaf children has increased in the past ten years. Such research is needed. Many of those who are deaf define themselves as members of a Deaf community with a unique language and culture. This makes it very likely that Deaf young people will have little access to programs that target those who can hear, and that smoking patterns and program needs are different in this community than in the hearing world. Communication, language, ...