Deaf culture

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…

commotion of this crazy world is beautiful. You rely on your eyes and hands to connect with everyone around you. Being a hearing person entering a deaf community or event is terrifying yet intriguing. My experience interacting with the deaf community has had its highs and lows. When we first received our assignment to venture out and to interact with the deaf community I was terrified.…

Information from written materials; (c) Information that families gain from observations of their child or other children; (d) Information from a system or center, such as a referral; and (e) Information from a person, such as a parent, professional, or deaf adult. Four families, all those with greater economic resources, mentioned using the Internet to gather both general and specific information. For example, they described “googling around” immediately following the hearing screening referral…

Attending deaf events as a hearing person might be seen as scary or intimidating. Due to the lack of knowledge of the typical hearings person's perspective of the deaf community. I personally did not know what to expect when attending deaf church. I honestly thought it might be a little boring go sit in a room and watch other people sign. But I shortly learn after attending my first event that I was wrong there's much more to the culture of the deaf community. I feared that I would be perceived…

The Deaf are a linguistic minority who face many communication barriers in the health care setting. For the Deaf population, American Sign Language (ASL) is the preferred method of communication, if not their native language. ASL is its own language, consisting of syntax, grammar, and vocabulary separate from that of English. Thus for many Deaf individuals, English is a second language and a language that they may not be completely literate in. This is critical to consider as most health care…

hearing to an individual that is deaf would be through signing, as I have taken American Sign Language and learned that people who are deaf hear through their eyes. The way I would describe sound would be with my facial expressions, signs, and word choices. Either being very loud, large, small, or soft, there are innumerable facial expressions that may be leveraged to show and explain how something is or sounds. As for the deaf, they are extremely descriptive in their culture, as they…

unique to those who have spoken language. Deaf adults are also capable of achieving adequate skills in literacy, without any auditory input. While there is a surplus of research dedicated to analyzing how hard of hearing and deaf children with cochlear implants or hearing aids learn to read and write, there are only a handful of researchers who have dove deep into the topic of how profoundly deaf children acquire written language. Determining how deaf children acquire written language is…

video I watched is called “Deaf Mosaic #402” which is a television program and the number represents the episode for the show. Deaf Mosaic is produced and distributed by the members of Gallaudet University, however it stopped running in, I think, around 1995. The TV show used to give the viewers an insight into Deaf culture and history. Anyways, the episode #402 is very important because of how it changed the deaf community in such a big way; it was the protest called “Deaf President Now.” I…

rules within the Deaf community that are understood and mostly accepted. These rules are used to know what is appropriate and what is not in their culture, primarily for the members of the Deaf community. Excluding the Deaf person from conversation is the first tacit rule in the community. Excluding anyone from a conversation is considered rude and mean, and is also unacceptable with Deaf people. This could include someone who knows ASL and chooses not to use it with another Deaf person. One…

No articles to be found say that if a Deaf client has a stomach ache, that an interpreter will start having a stomach ache, but interpreter may start feeling the emotions of the Deaf person. When interpreting, most interpreters voice like they are the Deaf person, like for example “I hurt am feeling sick today”, instead of “Billy is feeling sick today”. That is one reason why some interpreters start to feeling the emotions of the Deaf client more than the emotions of themselves. “One…