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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.
Dec 17, 2016 · We have divided the literature into six major themes or strands of focus. These are (1) deafness as a problem, (2) constructing deafness, (3) deafness. and social institutions, (4) deafness and...
- 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
Mar 27, 2009 · Psychosocial literature covering theory and research on identity evolution in deaf and hard-of-hearing persons is relatively recent. This chapter presents conceptual and theoretical perspectives on the formation of diverse deaf identity categories and how individuals may transition into and out of categories.
The present article focuses on how young deaf people residing in France who are migrants or the children of migrants define themselves, and how parents and professionals perceive their linguistic and cultural diversity.
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Understanding Deaf Culture. In Search of Deafhood. Paddy Ladd. ‘The critical ontology of ourselves has to be considered ... as an attitude, an ethos, a philosophical life in which the critique of what we are is at one and the same time the historical analysis of the limits that are imposed on us and an experiment in going beyond them.’.
