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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.
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.
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 extensive conceptual and theoretical perspectives on the formation of diverse deaf identity categories and how individuals may transition into and out of categories.
- 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...
This chapter offers an introduction to the theoretical concepts underlying research on Deaf communities and Deaf culture, including a comparison of early views centering on the image of the deaf individual and later approaches seeing deaf people as members of social groups.
Jul 7, 2017 · Deaf culture represents a conscious social group with a Deaf center that has at its core the value of sign languages, visual ways of understanding the world, and shared experiences as Deaf people in Deaf and hearing environments.
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May 16, 2023 · Policies and ethics. Because culture and language often play such a crucial role in both the individual’s understanding of the world around them and their interactions with that world, it is important to recognize how various systems interact with individuals from a particular...
