CSD 5400 REHABILITATION PROCEDURES FOR THE HARD OF HEARING

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CSD 5400REHABILITATION PROCEDURES FOR THE HARD
OF HEARING

• Hearing Loss and Identity
• Psychosocial Aspects
• Deaf Culture

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Culture

• a pattern of beliefs, values, behaviors, arts,
  customs, institutions, social forms and knowledge
  that are characteristic of a community
• Transmitted through language
• When children learn (acquire) language from their
  parents, they are learning their culture, too
• Deaf children of hearing parents are exposed to
  two languages and two cultures. Many times, the
  childs native language and culture are not the
  parents

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Deaf Culture

• Woodward (1972) proposed the following
  distinction
• deaf a medical definition of deafness which
  focuses on the hearing loss itself. deafness
  is seen as a disability.
• Deaf a sociocultural view of deafness which
  focuses on the social and cultural experiences of
  being deaf in a society in which the majority of
  individuals are hearing. Deafness is seen as a
  linguistic and ethnic minority culture.

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Some Membership Guidelines

• Native language is ASL (American)
• Family history of deafness
• No spoken English
• Congenital time of onset
• Residential school placement
• Hearing children of Deaf parents

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Transmission of the Culture

• Only 5-7 of deaf people have two deaf parents
• Importance of residential schools for the deaf
• Deaf houseparents
• Older Deaf students
• Deaf staff and Deaf teachers

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Patterns in the Culture

• Highlights
• Political activity
• Deaf President Now (DPN) movement
• Storytelling
• Poetry
• Theater
• Writing and publishing

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Home Cultures

• Deaf individuals have the same diverse racial,
  ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds as hearing
  persons
• Deaf individuals from minority groups must deal
  with issues of stereotyping, prejudice and
  discrimination

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