Lecture 14 - Deaf Culture versus the Disability Worldview

Question 1

Evidence of cultural resistance

Answer 1

• 90% Marriage
• Desire Deaf children
• Capital D
• Preserving Deaf Schools (Institutions)
• Gathering
• Use ASL
• Resistance toward: CI and hearing technologies
• Art and Lit with: cultural expressions
• Creation of the word “audism”
• Guarding Deaf culture (language and culture polices)
• Deaf Secret Societies

Question 2

Is deafness the worst of all disabilities? Why?

Answer 2

Helen Keller : “Blindness separates me from things but deafness separates me from people”

Question 3

Is deafness the best of all disabilities? Why?

Answer 3

• Deaf people can: Deaf people can drive, marry, move around easy, have good education to move up in this world.
• Dr. Roz Rosen: “It’s dandy to be deaf!” former NAD President

Question 4

Deaf people have:

Answer 4

people like them who communicate in visual language.

Question 5

Ableism

Answer 5

“Discrimination or prejudice against individuals with disabilities”

Question 6

Audism

Answer 6

“A notion that one is superior based on one’s ability to hear or to behave in the manner of one who hears”

Question 7

Definition of audism has:

Answer 7

more cultural context. Includes a cultural oppression to the Deaf people

Question 8

Is Audism one type of Ableism or a separate entry?

Answer 8

The answer: can be both

• One part: under ableism in terms of hearing ability
• Another part: under cultural and lingual oppression

Question 9

Deaf people looked down upon:

Answer 9

if they were Deaf beggars and peddlers.

Question 10

Deaf people with physical beauty, and abilities in sports, models and Hollywood are

Answer 10

revered to prove that they are not at the same level as disabled people.

Question 11

Professional Athletes:

Answer 11

Matt Hamill, Shelley Beattie, Curtis Pride

Question 12

Models:

Answer 12

John Maucere

Question 13

Hollywood Actors:

Answer 13

Marlee Matlin, Sean Berdy

Question 14

Dancer:

Answer 14

Antoine Hunter

Question 15

World Record holder lifesaver:

Answer 15

LeRoy Colomnos

Question 16

Scholars:

Answer 16

Dr. Harry Lang, Dr. Carol Padden

Question 17

College presidents:

Answer 17

Dr. I. King Jordan, Dr. Robert Davila, Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz

Question 18

How did we come with the word, “Disability”?

Answer 18

A creation of working class and another group who cannot work… during the industrial revolution.

Question 19

Deaf people’s perspective on disability:

Answer 19

• People of Disability are hearing people.
• People of Disability and Deaf people’s shared understanding: they understand something about each other in regards to “disability” issues and human variety but they still don’t understand….
• People of Disability don’t understand the Deaf w.r.t: cultural and lingual minority.
• Deaf feel oppressed when: we are categorized under the People with Disability against our will. We don’t agree with the label but we are labeled anyway even by the People of Disability.

Question 20

“Should we maintain a distance between Deaf culture and Disability?”

Answer 20

• The formation of the UW D-Center
• The difference:
• Language then culture.
• Worldview based on: visual learning.
• The similarity:
• Ableism and Social discrimination
• Accessibility
• Human variety as: a way of life and part of “culture”

Question 21

People of Disability often:

Answer 21

clueless to the specific needs of the Deaf culture and make decisions without really understanding them.

Question 22

Deaf people see People of Disability as:

Answer 22

the same as paternalistic “hearing” people who have oppressed Deaf people through the ages.

Question 23

Laws and regulations for disability are:

Answer 23

unfriendly to the Deaf people.

- Ex: The current situation with Apache Senior Citizen Center demonstrates this issue.

Question 24

Educational laws on mainstreaming disabled children (Public Law 94-142, IDEA):

Answer 24

makes things worse for deaf kids because these laws are made without consulting the Deaf experts.

• They don’t understand why: deaf people prefer “segregation.”
• Dr. Mac Vernon: [PL 94-142 is] “the road to hell”

Question 25

Privileges for Deaf people because of disability:

Answer 25

such as receiving Social Security disability checks as free money from the government if they are unable to find employment.
- Issues: with entitlements.

Question 26

Deaf people agree with the Disability community regarding:

Answer 26

the social discrimination.

Question 27

Vocational rehabilitation services provide

Answer 27

funds for Deaf people to get higher education, employment training, and some living needs as for other people of Disability.

Question 28

Deaf community supports the disability laws for equal accessibly to:

Answer 28

1) technology
2) opportunity for occupation
3) communication
Ex: Council of Organizations for Accessibly Technology