Deaf Person Hauser

Peter Hauser did a presentation with TEDx at Gallaudet University titled “Liguisticism and Audism on the Developing Deaf Person.” Hauser obtained his Master’s degree from Gallaudet and went on to obtain a PhD in Psychology. At the time of this presentation, he was working at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) within the Deaf studies lab. His presentation focused on Audism, Linguisticism, and resilience. According to Hauser, audism was defined as “being Deaf is bad” by Dr. Tome Humphries in 1977. Audism is being prejudice based on hearing status and a Deaf person being viewed as inferior. Linguisticism was defined by Dr. MJ Bienvenus as “teaching Deaf Children American Sign Language (ASL) is bad.” This is related to audism by being a form of prejudice towards the Deaf community. This is specifically being prejudice against a language and ASL was being viewed as inferior. Some people felt that it could not express itself the same way that a verbal language could. Hauser then went into defining resilience, the ability to bounce back from and adversity. …show more content…
If someone had a weaker resilience, it was due to risk factors that prevented a person from bouncing back. A question came into play if internalizing audism was a risk factor for a weaker resilience. Hauser and his team used the Deaf Implicit Association test (2013) to measure internalized audism among Deaf people. The test yielded that if Deaf individuals viewed Deaf as being good, they had the same level of reliance as hearing peers. If Deaf was viewed as bad, they scored a lower resilience and also showed that audism had been internalized. Hauser and his ream wanted to find out more about specific risk factors or protective factors and experimented with two more