Deaf people

identity. In this situation, the paper seeks to examine the deaf culture. In an earlier time, the term deaf was used to refer to individuals with severe hearing impairments. Therefore, deaf culture was comprised of individuals with a deficiency in the hearing organ. However, as time evolved, the term deaf culture carried a broader meaning. The meaning included individuals with a common life experience either directly or indirectly…

Within the Deaf Community, there are many different opinions on the best way to provide for the Deaf community due to the diverse backgrounds and opinions of Deaf people. The challenges the Deaf community faces can become even more controversial when hearing people attempt to provide solutions without consulting Deaf people on their own culture and suggestions. However, ever since I started learning American Sign Language, the information I learned regarding Deaf culture caused me to develop…

the Deaf movement from social movements occurring in the disability community. The struggle between the “dominant hearing society and Deaf people over the best means of communication”, with the educational setting as the constant battleground. Includes the influences of other social movements of the 60s and 70s, the Deaf “President Now!” protest at Gallaudet University, and suggestions and hopes for the future. The author Katherine A. Jankowski is former Dean of the Laurent Clerc National Deaf…

problem with our society is that people associate deafness with a disease and these individuals are unable to see that there are many deaf people who contribute to the improvement of our society. Contrary to many misconceptions about the deaf community deaf people are able to integrate themselves into our culture and be able to be a functioning member of society. All individuals have a culture they’re born into or belong to and just like the rest of society deaf people have a culture of their…

Deaf Again is an autobiography of the life of Mark Drolsbaugh. Mark analyzes and discusses the psychosocial and educational aspects of deafness by using experiences and his family’s encounters throughout his life. He begins with Sherry, Mark’s mother’s experience of his birth to exemplify how the deaf are treated due to the communication gap between the deaf and hearing. He then discusses experiences that impacted his psychosocial, emotional, and educational development from the time he was…

Deaf Culture In the United States there are approximately 36 million individuals with who have hearing loss to some degree and of these, and an estimated 500,000 are culturally Deaf and part of the Deaf community (Fileccia, 2011). Deaf, with a capital D refer to individuals who consider themselves part of the Deaf community culturally, whereas deaf refers to a condition in which one lacks the ability to hear. Deaf culture is similar to any other culture in that it can be characterized by certain…

families with of deaf children. Lately, many medical professionals and social media sites have been singing the praises of the pediatric cochlear implant, some going as far as to say that to deprive a child of an implant would be to deprive them of a decent way of life. While each case is completely separate from another, and should be treated as such, the purpose of this paper is to argue that it would be in the child’s best interest to introduce both them and their hearing family to deaf…

levels and different cultures within the deaf community. Two of the main terms used were ‘deaf’ and ‘Deaf.’ There are also other terms for variations on hearing levels and involvedness in communities, for example, hard of hearing or oral. These terms however are not the foundation of this paper. There is a difference between ‘deaf’ and ‘Deaf,’ the main difference being the inclusion or exclusion of culture in the meaning. According to ASL Stew, lowercase deaf refers to a hearing difference from…

On Thursday, October 1st, I went to a Deaf Night Out event on UNCG’s campus. The event was held in the school of education and was a mix between a social and a presentation. Luke’s roommate and a few other students shared their experiences from studying abroad in Italy to learn Italian sign language. When I first arrived at the event I did not see anyone I knew. I very much felt like an outsider who was imposing. Then I found Luke and felt a little more comfortable. Everyone there knew each…

elderly couple in front of me was signing. The elderly couple was deaf, and they wrote on notepad paper to order their food. In deaf history, people experienced trauma in their lives due to health care providers trying to “fix” their “illness”. The city of Fremont has a large deaf community, and I wondered how deaf people are being treated today in the health care system and if there are any health care disparities? The emotional needs of deaf adults and children were overshadowed as health…