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Deaf Culture Iceberg - Coggle Diagram
Deaf Culture Iceberg
Diversity
Most Deaf individuals aren't born into the community as 96% are born into hearing families.
Ethnicity/ Race/ cultural background
Other signed/ spoken languages
Different levels of hearing loss
Class/ social Class
Culturally Deaf
CODA, Hearing family members, Hearing Friends, Interpreters, and ASL students.
Late Deafened Individuals
Multiple communities such as National Association of the Deaf and National Black Deaf Advocates.
Deafhood and Deaf Gain
Education
Gallaudet University, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, California State University, Northridge, etc
Deaf President Now
Oralism
Alexander Graham Bell
Sign Language
Deaf Studies
American School for the Deaf
ADA and 504
Religion
Different labels to their hearing loss
Deaf, deaf, auditory handicap, hearing impaired, hearing handicapped, deaf mute, prelingually deaf, Hard of Hearing, deaf and dumb.
Deaf Blind
Signed/ tactile Lanaguage
LGBTQ+/ Gender
Disabilities (other than hearing loss)
Entertainment
Movies/ TV: Threat Matrix, Providence, ER, and This close.
Famous actors: Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman
Sports
Discrimination
Ableism/ Audism
Historically discriminated and thought deaf people lacked reason and were chronically dumb
Lack of language, education, and communication
Hearing devices
Hearing aids and Cochlear Implants
Two different opinions of them. Some believe it helps and it benefits them more in communication some people believe it assimilates them into hearing culture and is harmful.