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This chapter delineates three foundational social questions covering identity and its confluence with society. The authors, deaf academics, use these foundational questions as a framework to examine sociological perceptions of deaf identities.
- Family Issues
- Educational Implications
- Cochlear Implants
Little research exists on how having a deaf or hard of hearing child affects the family. The lack of empirical articles is alarming considering the fact that three out of every one-thousand infants are born with hearing loss . Even more surprising is that researchers have typically cited that approximately 10% of children who are deaf are born to h...
One of the most difficult services for parents to obtain is acquiring a sound education for their D/deaf son or daughter. For centuries, educating the deaf has proved to be a challenge, provoking much inquiry in a hearing world. The Greeks and Romans in the first century ad encouraged the removal of the deaf from society because they felt they were...
Since their inception in 1984, cochlear implants have been the most well publicized debate topic between the hearing world and deaf culture . According to Sparrow , “cochlear implants are a technology which attempts to ‘cure’ deafness by bypassing the outer ear through electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve” (p. 135). Originally cochlear impl...
Feb 8, 2021 · This second edition of Deaf People and Society is an updated and revised look at deaf culture from multiple perspectives, with the question, “What does it mean to be deaf?” at its center.
- Jason P Lilly
- 2021
The results show that deafness prevails over ethnicity in regard to self-identification, even if linguistic and cultural diversity can also be taken into account in an inclusive education. Keywords: deafness, ethnicity, language, identity, culture, education, diversity
Sinecka (2008) explicitly uses narrative methodology to explore what it means, as a Deaf person, to come out to family and peers as gay, how inclusive the Deaf community is of gay persons, as well as how inclusive the hearing gay community is of Deaf persons.
- Laura Mauldin, Tara Fannon
Oct 1, 2002 · In ethnographic accounts, interactions involving deaf people are sometimes presented as examples of how communities treat atypical members. Recently, studies of deafness have adopted more...
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Mar 1, 2021 · Deaf people view their Deafness through a cultural lens and usually disassociate from views which align with these models (Lane 1995).
