The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing

In 1973 the rehabilitation Act was created. This act prohibits any discrimination against the disabled. It requires accessibility to employment, education, health, welfare, and social services.

In chapter 4, it explains how Deaf people live in a hearing world. Some people who have grown up with Deaf people really don't see Deaf people as any different than themselves. Verditz had an idea that sign language comes from spoken languages, English and ASL are similar and different from each other having English as my first language has helped me learn ASL but the sentence structures are very different from English. Sign language is a visual language.

The phrase "but you don't look deaf" was the impetus for this research project. The stereotype exists that if you are deaf or have another disability, you are easily distinguished by visual clues that the person is deaf. This research sought to discover if hearing people were correct in this assumption, and you could tell that someone was deaf because of a particular visual clues that would indicate they are deaf. In order to research this idea, I made a survey online using google forms using images of both hearing, hard of hearing and deaf people and asked respondents to choose one of the responses. The findings are being presented with google spreadsheets and google forms.

accept the diagnosis that their child is Deaf. They are in denial that may last

American Annals of the Deaf is an educational journal that is committed to providing educational experiences of high quality as well as related services for the deaf. This journal has been around for over 150 years, and over time they have been dedicated to making sure that children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing are receiving quality assistance for their disability (NEED CITATION). In July 1996, they published a scholarly article in response to a survey Catherine Gillespie and Sandra Twardosz conducted about the literacy environment and different practices that children are receiving in a residential school for the deaf.

The National Deaf Education Project was founded in 1998 by Lawrence Siegel. Lawrence M. Siegel has been an advocate and attorney for special education cases beginning in 1979 (National Deaf Education Project). He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (National Deaf Education Project). He has strong beliefs regarding the Deaf community and culture and the Deaf’s rights and liberties as Americans. Specifically, he believes that communication and language is a right for human beings and should become a necessity for learning. He established the NDEP to become the model and articulate a plan for communication in the educational setting for deaf and hard of hearing students in the United States (National Deaf Education Project). The board of the NDEP consists of representatives of Gallaudet University and collaborators of the project of the American Society for Deaf Children, the Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools for the Deaf, the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Gallaudet University, and the National Association of the Deaf (Gallaudet). This organization continues to aid in reforming the communication systems for the deaf and hard of hearing in public educational systems.

Deaf and hard of hearing people are just like us. They are not any different, but hears like us. There is some common misunderstanding, that is really annoying for Deaf and hard of hearing people. Those misunderstanding are can you understands us? Are you able to drive? Do you need a wheelchair? Can you read and write? Do deaf people have sex? Etc.…These kinds of questions annoyed deaf people the most. People do not realize that deaf people do not have as much as difficulty as normal folks thinks that they have. They can do almost everything and just as much no less. Sometime, they begged to be considered the same as hearing folks. They want to be equals, respected, and value just as much as hearing people. Sometime, we forgot to ask ourselves.

Noted Deaf educator Tom Holcomb, in his 2010 paper, Deaf Epistemology: the deaf way of knowing, posits that the flow of knowledge is fundamentally different in hearing and Deaf cultures. That is, Deaf learners tend to collect information from direct experience or from the secondhand experiences reported to them by other Deaf persons. Hearing learners accumulate information through oral transmission, mostly in formal educational settings but also via casual social contacts. (Holcomb, 2010). Indeed one study has suggested that because formal educational settings are biased toward oral instruction. Deaf learners acquire only about 12% of the information that is available to the hearing. (DHHS, 2015)

The public health message contemplating is "R.I.D.E your way to a successful health". The acronym in ride stands for Reduce, Implement, Disseminate, and Evaluate. Therefore, it becomes critical to reducing the impact CVD has on the health care system (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015) by implementing a health education program to target CVD through health consulting. DHEO intend to disseminate, evaluation forms to measure effectively behavioral changes conducted through public health consulting outreaches. In CVD, health education in the DHOH communities needs to be address, especially the impact it has on the overall nation health expenditure (Zazove & Doukas, 1994). The social determinants of health in the DHOH communities

How do we create a framework for addressing SDOH in a meaningful way? The best methods for addressing SDOH are not well understood. According to the Center for Healthcare Strategies, SDOH data can be used to create both targeted individual level interventions and population level interventions. At the individual level, SDOH data can be used by providers to identify those that may be eligible for certain resources or programs. Additionally, it may also be used to guide decision making and enhance care delivery. At the population level, this data may be used to drive interventions for certain subpopulations that are deemed to be the most vulnerable and help agencies allocate their resources most effectively.

and not a cultural demographic in society (Thomson, 2018). The deaf community exists through language and a shared experience of audism. It should be pointed out that there is a difference between deaf community and signing community. Anyone who has experienced profound hearing loss and picks up a mode of sign language, for the purpose of defining community, including any deaf centric focused organization and/or business that makes sign language a primary point of its mission and not so much the inability to hear. Deafness should be reflective of sign language and not of disability. The boundaries of such communities are both global and online. Community exists where language exists. That is to say without visual mediums, you cannot have culture

Other ways Deaf culture is different than American culture is in how we share information. In American culture, individuals tend to censor

The example of d/Deafness relates to autism since both are seen as being diseases that should be cured. Most of the support of cochlear implants seen in Sound and Fury came from those who were not deaf. Rather, they were the hearing parents of deaf children who believed their children would be better off if they could hear. Heather’s parents, Peter and Nita, who are deaf, were against cochlear implants and believed being deaf was a good thing. However, Peter’s sister-in-law, who was not deaf, would cry just thinking about how her son was born deaf. The same reaction is seen amongst the non-autistic when they think about autism. They see it as being something that needs to be cured, while the autistic see their autism as being a part of their identity and if it were to be cured a part of them would be gone. Deafness and autism are not only viewed as diseases that should be cured, but as terrible fates with the non-disabled not being able to imagine living their lives without their

Our world is made up of billions of people, all roaming the earth together. Each individual is unique in their own way; each with their own story to tell. They all come from different ethnic groups, speak different languages, and follow different religions. This uniqueness of an individual can be classified as culture. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language; Culture is defined as the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. (Harcourt, 2015) A culture group that is often misunderstood, or entirely forgotten is the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Looking closely at this group one can see that though members come from diverse backgrounds, the bond of being deaf as well as the individuality of their own language, American Sign Language, helps create their own enriched culture and community.

Hearing people need to support deaf people and treat them as an interdependent people. For supporting deaf community, it is ethical for hearing people to embrace deaf culture and accept them as a normal linguistic as well as cultural community. Deafness, in fact, is not a disability and societies should treat them just like any other social group. People in deaf community, nowadays, live a normal life, driving, cooking, caring for others, paying their bills, and working like other normal