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A Basic Course in American Sign Language (1980) Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (1988) Inside deaf culture (2004) Learning American Sign Language (1992) Chapters. Humphries, T. (1996). "On deaf-mutes, the strange, and the modern Deaf self" in Culturally Affirming Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons. N.
An introduction to Deaf culture in American Sign Language (ASL) with English subtitles available. Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.
The experience of the Deaf being a language minority is comparable to other minorities' native languages being important to group identification and the preservation of their culture. [4] Deaf clubs (such as NAD- The National Association of the Deaf) and Deaf schools have played large roles in the preservation of sign language and Deaf culture. [5]
Instead, Deaf culture uses Deaf-first language: Deaf person or hard-of-hearing person. [10] Capital D- Deaf is as stated prior, is referred to as a student who first identifies as that. Lower case d- deaf is where a person has hearing loss: typically, those that consider themselves deaf, first and foremost prior to any other identity.
Language acquisition strategies for deaf children acquiring a sign language are different than those appropriate for hearing children, or for deaf children who use spoken language with hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. Because sign languages are visual languages, eye gaze and eye contact are critical for language acquisition and communication.
Deaf studies emerged with the recognition that deaf people have a culture and that such culture is unique, requiring alternative ways of understanding this segment of the population outside of pathological frameworks. [4] The University of Bristol began using the term "deaf studies" in 1984 after the founding of the Centre for Deaf Studies in ...
Burke's primary research focus has been Deaf philosophy; the intersection of philosophy and Deaf studies.Within this realm, she has worked on topics such as the ethics of sign-language interpreting, deaf gain through the lens of intrinsic and instrumental value, moral justification regarding the use of technology to intentionally bear deaf children, and deaf liberty. [2]
In the book, Croneberg gave an early ethnographic and sociological portrait on the Deaf community and its regional dialects. [ 7 ] Croneberg was one of the first sociologists to use the term "culture" to describe signing deaf Americans' way of life, and was the first to discuss the differences between Black ASL and white ASL. [ 8 ]