ASL QUIZ

Deafhood

Deafhood

Part of deaf community, culture, and identity.focus on identity, not the inability to hear. positive affirmation of deaf culture

deafness

label, pathological that focuses on the inability to hear

Balanced bicultural

comfortable in both deaf and hearing world

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DEAF HEARING CULTURE+BALANCE

• Deaf-dominant bicultural

• – Comortable in both but will prefer Deaf

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DEAF HEARING CULTURE STRONG-deaf

• Hearing-dominant bicultural –

• comfortable in both but limited

  access to Deaf community

• Culturally separate –

• Intentionally avoids hearing people

HEARING CULTURE AVOID

• Culturally marginal –

DEAF HEARING CULTURE BOTH OPRESS

• Not comfortable in both worlds (not speak

  well, or know enough signs)

• Culturally isolated –

• Does not affiliate with Deaf Culture (deaf

  people pity those “kind” of people)

DEAF CULTURE AVOID

• Culturally captive –

• Zero knowledge of Deaf Culture, Deaf people.

  Intentionally kept from that world

DEAF CULTURE (2h)NO-IDEA

• Biculturalism –

• involved with friends, 􏰀amily, & both community

• Communication –

• Attempt to teach hearing people (fellow students, co-workers, etc) how to sign; text/write/voice-to-text and vice versa

• Preferences

• – people on the same spectrum of communication; Deaf Spaces