Deaf culture
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. When used as a cultural label, especially within the culture, the word deaf is often written with a capital D and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. When used as a label for the audiological condition, it is written with a lower case d.[1] Carl G. Croneberg coined the term "Deaf Culture" and he was the first to discuss analogies between Deaf and hearing cultures in his appendices C/D of the 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language.[2]
A positive attitude toward deafness is typical in Deaf cultural groups. Deafness is not generally considered a condition that needs to be fixed.
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The term "Deaf Gain" is used by Deaf people, to re-frame the perceived losses of Deafness and "hearing loss" to highlight the benefits of being deaf. According to deaf scientist , it describes the benefits that Deaf people provide the larger community.[38]
Michele Cooke
Culturally, Deaf people value the use of natural sign languages that exhibit their own grammatical conventions, such as American Sign Language and , over signed versions of English or other oral languages. Spoken English, written English and signed English are three different symbolic systems for expressing the same language.[39]
British Sign Language
Deaf communities strongly oppose discrimination against deaf people.
Deaf culture in the United States tends to be collectivist rather than individualist; culturally Deaf people value the group.
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The use of a sign language is central to Deaf cultural identity. Oralist approaches to educating deaf children thereby pose a threat to the continued existence of Deaf culture. Some members of Deaf communities may also oppose technological innovations like for the same reason.
cochlear implants
Audism
Deaf culture in the United States
Deaf flag
Deaf mental health care
Language deprivation in deaf and hard of hearing children
List of Deaf films
Sign name
, a Czech sign language comedy play
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"Deafness as Culture"
Article discussing the controversy.
"Deafness is not a disability" (argumentum ad consequentiam)
. Weekly Standard, 2 April 2007
Identity Politics Gone Wild, by Charlotte Allen
– a popular national newspaper among the deaf population of the United States during the end of the 1890s through the end of the first quarter of the 20th century.
The Silent Worker
. The NAD protects deaf and hard of hearing civil rights in the U.S.