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Deaf Culture Article: Positive vs Negative Beliefs - Coggle Diagram
Deaf Culture Article: Positive vs Negative Beliefs
Conclusions
Deaf individuals who communicate orally most likely were influenced by the hearing people around them while growing up.
This group of individuals have a weak sense of identity and/or find themselves in between identifying as different from the Deaf community and different from the hearing community
Most of the sentiments toward Deaf people's abilities were promisingly positive regardless of the backgrounds of each group.
A possible solution to the ignorance plaguing the hearing world about the Deaf community could include hiring more Deaf people, thus mixing the two groups together to better understand each other.
Results
Hearing adults who attended Greek Sign Language courses held more positive beliefs than deaf adults who communicated orally
Both deaf groups believed Deaf could drive as safely as hearing people
Deaf adults who communicated orally believed issues should be taken up with the interpreter instead of the deaf employee directly
Regular hearing adults were most negative about deaf adults being able to escape a fire as safely as hearing adults
General
Deaf people may internalize society’s negative attitudes
Deaf people are well aware of the existence of stereotypes though they sometimes exaggerate their extent, believing that hearing individuals have even more negative attitudes toward deaf people than they really do
Hearing people tend to hold negative attitudes and think stereotypically regarding deaf people even though they may not hold hostile attitudes toward them
An overwhelming number of deaf students are nowadays educated in mainstream educational settings
Interviews
Interviews indicated that the only reason a Deaf person couldn’t be a great writer would be because they did not get proper support in their schooling.
Differences between oral and signing deaf opinions does not mean that they do not believe in deaf people’s capabilities, but rather had to do with roles of language and culture.
These results did not reflect their doubts about deaf people's capabilities but indicated rather an awareness of existing obstacles that could prevent deaf people from pursuing a goal
Hearing people's ignorance and missing information about the Deaf community come from not being in an environment with only hearing people