Deaf in America's Introduction
- lowercase deaf when referring to audiological condition of not hearing
- uppercase Deaf when referring to a particular group of deaf people who share language and culture
- deaf - person who can’t hear
- Deaf - deaf person immersed in their culture
- self-identification is an important diagnostic in deciding who is Deaf
- there is a lot of diversity in the Deaf community
- different signed languages
- distinctive identities within locations, even in the same signed language
- because of segregation, there is a white and a black variety of ASL
- there are people with severe or profound hearing impairment who do not participate in the community of Deaf people
- school plays an important role in the community
- residential schools: state and funded boarding schools for deaf children. through high school
- return home only for weekends and holidays
- ORAL - disallow use of signed language
- MANUAL - signed language is allowed
- educational policy still emphasizes speech and English
- in the dorms, deaf children are introduced to the social life of Deaf people
- public school
- ASL is independent of English
- verbs can be separated into 3 classes
- different sentence structure
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