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Are Deaf People (from birth) Disabled?
Hi. I am a junior in high school and right now we are working on our junior paper. My topic is, "Are Deaf people disabiled." I would like to get some insight about the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and how Deaf people feel about being put under that act. Do Deaf people concider themselves disabled? Why or Why not? Thank you for your opinion and info. It will help me a lot with my paper.
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I asked my deaf students to write an opinion paragraph on this very topic. (It had come up in class so I went with it.) The very interesting thing was, some people's opinion was that because deaf people have to rely on HAs, CIs, interpreters, assistive devices, and so forth, this means they are disabled. Other people's opinion was that because deaf people are able to utilize HAs, CIs, interpreters, assistive devices, and so forth, this means they are not disabled.
Just goes to show you, there will never be a consensus on anything in the deaf community! ![]() |
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I feel disabled in the hearing community and I dont feel disabled in the deaf community so we, deaf people, are disabled cuz the hearing community are so resistant to make accodomations for us. It is not really that hard to do it! We live in a very self-centered society, huh?
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Well, the word disabled has a stigma. People normally view that as being unable to function in many ways. Whereas, we are able to do anything except hear like normal hearing people, but we can work, go to school, etc., etc. I think it's simply the word disabled has a stigma to it.
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So, is it actually the deafness that creates the disability, or is it societal barriers that create the disability? And having a disability in some situations cannot be equated to being disabled. Being disabled implies that one experiences the same functional limitations in ALL situations. |
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If you're writing a subjective essay about it, then my own answer would be no, deaf people are not disabled. It's just a question of the Other - the dominant culture sets the definitions for everything and this goes for pretty much all cases, not just hearing/deaf.
Interpretator mentioned the use of assistive devices... take the TTY for example, deaf people use TTY's to communicate/call other people, so in a hearing culture this can be seen as an assistive device for a disability. But if you just look at it as a form of technology then it's really not that different from a telephone. If everyone in the world had TTYs instead of phones, they wouldn't be assistive devices. If everyone had vibrating alarm clocks, or flashing light smoke detectors instead of ones that made noise, then same thing. It's just a question of majority vs minority... what makes people disabled in the first place. I have to admit, there are a few lame-ish exceptions to this I've come up with, like the cost of different kinds of technology, hearing environmental sounds/signifiers of danger, and the benefits, or maybe lack thereof, that the use of "deaf" technology would provide to hearing people. For the most part, though, I don't think deaf people are disabled apart from the pathological definition. I wish I could get a topic like that for a paper at my school. It'd be nice to shock my professor with my 20-something pages I'd end up writing... |
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I am thinking of printing off jillio's post and put it in a frame because it's the best quote I have seen on AD.
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Awww....thank you! But don't give me so much credit. Deaf people say the same thing about themselves all the time, just maybe with different words. People jsut don't seem to listen to what deaf people are telling them.
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Hearing and Deaf are the same in Disabled.
Deaf isn't real a disabled just a hearing loss and not use speak. Just a health and strong. They can do anything at work during good health. Some deaf can't get a job due to health problem and mental problem. Like blind, mental retard, brain injury, body injury, arthritis, chronic back pain and etc. Some blind can get job for a special. Hearing people are same with deaf. Read the above. By the way, I am under disabled. I am shy to tell you what I have. I am in good health. I am not comfortable to post about my disabled what I have. ![]()
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Deaf people don't see themselves 'handicapped' in our world, We consider ourselves as normal people because we are physically fine and have normal life... We view Hearing people as 'disabled'. Why we call them 'disabled' because they are unable to communicate us in our language. Hearing people placed deaf people on the rut because they do not know how to deal with them. They even think we are retarded or "dumb". That's called "communication barrier". I have been treated like retarded when I worked as a Night Stocker at food store. The manager had retarded son and assumed that I'm just the same. It ticks me off big time. I had knot in my stomach and feel like I want to have a death wish on him. He was trying to show me where the baby food belongs to. I told him that customer mess up the baby food flavor order on shelf. He doesn't believe me and think that I was not smart and quick enough to remember all the flavors on shelf in one night. I told him "Who can memorize all those in one night!! It's all mixed up with different flavor at a wrong place!!". He was agiated and act like he's going to fire me. I told him "I QUIT!!" before he was about to say "You're Fired". I walked out of store and never regret. My co workers were left speechless when they heard that I left. Few months later, I bumped into former co worker. They told me the manager who treated me retarded was fired. I was so HaPpY to hear that LOL. Sweet revenge!! It is fairly common that when deaf people trying to start Home business under popular business like Amway, Quixtar, Herbalife, and more (common business runs by hearing people), Hearing coaches recruits deaf and after few weeks, they ditches deafie and move along because they think it's too hard to communicate with them even Emailing, Text messaging and all those technology provided today. They says that hiring interpreters are too expensive and time consuming. Our money was wasted from trying to start Home Business through hearing. It's sad tho. I had a strange dream many years ago that everyone in the world are deaf. Any babies born hearing considered as 'handicapped'. We had to implement some kind of communication system to help hearing child to understand our language like sign to voice machine. Hearing adults have their own 'Club of the Hearing'. Every Government, Military, Social S |