Professional Journal: Phhonological Awareness In The Deaf Community

Professional Journal Review Over the years the Deaf community has been seen as disabled and impaired, there have been countless papers, reports, journals, and articles about how the deaf population might be able to be “fixed.” However, in recent years the hearing community has started to accept the Deaf community as its own culture while still being apart of the hearing world. There are now scholarly peered reviewed journals written for the Deaf community by members of the Deaf community. While there are still hearing medical journals that still write about the more negative side of being a deaf individual and trials and experiments being done to “fix” deaf individuals. The medical hearing world is trying to “fix” the Deaf community because they do not understand how the deaf learn or exist in a hearing world. One example of a hearing journal is the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, this journal publishes research and …show more content…
From Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing “Phonological Activation during Visual Word Recognition in Deaf and Hearing Children” will be looked at and compared to “Bilingual Deaf Students’ Phonological Awareness in ASL and Reading Skills in English” from Sign Language Studies. Both articles are looking at phonological abilities of deaf students. However, this is being done in two completely different ways. The hearing journal’s article wants to research the phonological activation in deaf children but they are using deaf children with some type of hearing device, but compared to previous tests the researchers decided to use word-picture recognition instead of being speech dominated environments. The deaf journal took deaf children and examined the phonological activity by using the same type of set up except by using computer images, but they focused purely on deaf children without a hearing