enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Deaf culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture

    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.

  3. List of deaf people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaf_people

    Lawrence R. Newman, deaf educator and activist, and served two terms as President of the National Association of the Deaf; Michael Ndurumo, a deaf educator from Kenya, the third deaf person from Africa to be awarded a PhD; Marie Jean Philip, a teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language

  4. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disability-related...

    Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]

  5. Deafblindness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafblindness

    A person might be born deaf and become blind at a later stage in life, or vice versa. In any given case of deafblindness, many possible onsets and causes of this condition exist; some happen gradually, others happen unexpectedly and suddenly. [ 9 ]

  6. Deaf culture in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture_in_the_United...

    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.

  7. Deafhood - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafhood

    The concept is empowering for Deaf people because of the history of discrimination deaf individuals faced. Many deaf individuals faced audism, a new term meaning to discriminate based on the inability to hear. Deaf people historically have often been considered incapable of abstract thinking, since they lacked speech to express thoughts. [3]

  8. Are deaf drivers under any restrictions? Here’s what states ...

    www.aol.com/news/deaf-drivers-under-restrictions...

    Back in 1920 there were a few states that, for a short time, didn’t allow deaf people to get a driver’s license. Apart from those states during that time, deafness has not disqualified people ...

  9. Hearing loss - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_loss

    A deaf person using a camera-equipped smartphone to communicate in sign language Hearing loss is defined as diminished acuity to sounds which would otherwise be heard normally. [ 15 ] The terms hearing impaired or hard of hearing are usually reserved for people who have relative inability to hear sound in the speech frequencies.