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Parts of Deaf Culture/ Community - Coggle Diagram
Parts of Deaf Culture/ Community
Labels
Negative Labels
Terms like: Prelingually Deaf, Hearing Handicapped, Auditory Handicap, Hearing Impaired, Deaf Mute, and Deaf and Dumb
Labels with negative connotations that make it seem like Deaf people are lesser in some way
Thing that focus on the "disability" that someone has
Positive Labels
Terms like Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Terms that put the person before the "problem"
Using things like "those who became Deaf later in life" emphasize the person and what happened not the issue then the person
Commonly Used Labels in US
Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Hearing Impaired
Differences in the Communities
Race/ Ethnicity
Asian, Latinx, Native American or Indigenous, Black
People from different races have their own culture
The history of people who are not European has been neglected and is historians are working to correct that
Parental Hearing Status
Culturally Deaf Parents- children are raised in both hearing and deaf communities
Hearing Parents- children usually attend hearing schools and their parents may or may not know sign
CODA- hearing child of Deaf adults
Hearing status
The Deaf communities are not only for people who cannot hear, hearing people who know ASL or someone who is part of the community are often welcome to join
Hearing members of a Deaf person may be welcomed
Misconceptions
Being Deaf only means not being able to hear
There are cultures, core values, behaviors, and interpretations not just not hearing
The terms "Deaf" and "deaf" mean the same thing
Someone who is "deaf" is someone with hearing loss *
Someone "Deaf" is someone involved in Deaf culture and embraces their deafness