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Beyond Culture: Deaf Studies and the Deaf Body - Coggle Diagram
Beyond Culture:
Deaf Studies and the Deaf Body
The concept of Deaf Culture is fundamental to the field of Deaf Studies
Deaf people share fundamental values that differ from those of the hearing Americans around them
the concept of Deaf Culture increasingly appears inadequate by itself as an explanation of the Deaf community and the experiences of Deaf people
recent research has shown that Deaf people process visual information differently than hearing people
statement by George Veditz that Deaf people “are facing not a theory but a condition for they are first, last, and all the time the people of the eye,” has become a popular aphorism among Deaf activists.
Deaf people differ from hearing people in physical (or, more precisely, sensory) ways that are not explained by culture
many people identify themselves as hearing impaired, hearing disabled,
deaf, or hard of hearing g who are not culturally Deaf
they do not share the values of Deaf people, they are not (or only partially) fluent in the e language of the community, and they do not identify as Deaf and are not seen as Deaf
As Padden and Humphries note in Deaf in America “Hearing children of Deaf parents represent an ongoing contradiction in the culture: they display the knowledge of their parents — skill
in the language and social conduct — but the culture finds subtle ways to give them an unusual and separate status.”
Children raised in the hearing world are culturally hearing, not Deaf, yet in large numbers choose to join the Deaf world. An explanation of why they make this choice must point beyond culture
Children raised in the hearing world are culturally hearing, not Deaf, yet in large numbers choose to join the Deaf world
Deaf cultures, like hearing cultures, vary a great deal from country to country
Padden sees her research as part of Deaf Studies and of interest to American Deaf people
Deaf people are different from hearing people in ways other than cultural
ethnic groups in America typically assimilate during the second and third generations. Deaf
people do not
Recent research estimates that only about 3 percent of Deaf people have two Deaf parents.
Deafness is . . . very much a cultural construction that changes over time. But it is also a physical reality
Deaf people could not, for they are both members of a species that by nature seeks optimal communication and inhabitants of a sensory universe in which that end cannot be achieved by oral means alone
if the field of Deaf Studies is to progress, it must move beyond the culture model to talk about the body, about the significance of living in a different sensory world
most people think of disability in terms of inability, absence, and loss
Deaf is not a defect, that being Deaf offers no less rich and rewarding a life than being hearing, and that being Deaf is neither a pathology nor a medical
matter
what most people have in mind when they think of disability is a medical model (a.k.a. the functional limitations or pathological model)
disability not simply inherent in bodies but rather a way of interpreting human differences
People with particular physical differences from the majority are disabled by the prejudicial beliefs and
actions of the majority