What is Deaf culture? Deaf culture encompasses the social beliefs, behaviors, art, and traditions of communities profoundly influenced by deafness, primarily using sign languages like American Sign Language (ASL) or British Sign Language (BSL)for communication. Central to Deaf culture is using sign ...
Bangs, D. (1994). What is a deaf performing arts experience? In C. J. Erting, R. C. Johnson, D. L. Smith, & B. D. Snider (Eds.), The deaf way: Perspectives from the international conference on deaf culture (pp. 751–761). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press....
Cultural appropriation occurs when a person from one cultural adopts the fashion, iconography, trends or styles from another culture.
“There is a central conundrum that any deaf show or movie needs to appeal to hearing people to find real success, but hearing people generally know so little about deafness that what appeals is often sensationalistic or outside the deaf experience,” Fischtrom Beacom said. “I see some evid...
It was 1955, when even deaf people considered their signing as “substandard”. Stokoe's idea was academic heresy(异端邪说). G. It is 37 years later. Stokoe--now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture-is ...
The majority of the chapters focused on the perspective that correction and cure are more important than positive functioning and respect for language and culture. These chapters suggest that not only is there no input from the Deaf community, but there is a systematic avoidance to include Deaf ...
Nonverbal communication is the process of sending and receiving messages without words, including eye contact, voice volume, and facial expressions.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to review the literature related to accessibility challenges in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributions of this paper are: A literature review of 34, peer-reviewed, deaf and hearing-impaired publications related to deaf ...
A Journey into the Deaf-World (review) A Journey into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, and Ben Bahan (DawnSignPress, San Diego, CA 1996, 512 pages, hardcover) The authors intend this book as an introduction to deafness, Deaf culture, and signed languages for......
Let's look at why identifying detractors is important. Why are Detractors Important for your Business Growth? While it's nearly impossible to have all your customers always happy with your business, your detractors can cause a lot of harm to your business and no matter how less or more they...