Lost in Translation? Communication, Culture, and Care in Deaf Mental Health

Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) youth are among the most diagnostically vulnerable populations in child and adolescent psychiatry, and most training programs have left clinicians underprepared to serve them. Language dysfluency misread as thought disorder. Communication differences conflated with ASD. Behavioral dysregulation mislabeled as ADHD. These are predictable consequences of systemic gaps in training, assessment, and care access. Watch expert faculty have a facilitated clinical conversation on what equitable psychiatric care for DHH youth actually requires. This forum was sponsored by AACAP’s Diversity and Culture and the AACAP Deaf/Hard of Hearing and Blind/Low Vision Committees