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Postdeafness - Coggle Diagram
Postdeafness
focus on the future for the Deaf community
What does being Deaf mean?
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.
Hearing implications on Deafness
Deaf" usually refers to a hearing loss so severe that there is very little or no functional hearing.
focus on medical definition
Does not focus on individuals of the community
labels whole as disability
seek to classify Deaf individuals
audism tactics to obstruct
Looking at the history of Deafness
Deaf people are seen in the context of less than human
marginalized by mainstream society
Deaf Studies
A view into Deaf identify
Deaf people are minorized people
explanations of Deaf identity
linguistic minority
Sign languages
adaptions
uniqueness
visual langauge