Deaf Culture
Deaf people, like hearing people have their own culture. Not only d they have there own language but a separate culture then hearing people. The deaf culture is very important to the deaf community in this paper I will tell you some examples of this amazing culture. Many people of the hearing community might think of a deaf person as “handicapped” but if you called a deaf person this, they would be offended. Deaf people do not think of them self as disabled or handicapped. They prefer to call them self’s by this only for social, political, or economical needs. Many hearing people think that deaf people should learn to lip-read and learn how to speak so hearing people can understand them. Deaf people like to think of them selfs as having nothing more then a language barrier, such as we would think for someone who spoke Spanish instead of English. Also phrases such as “deaf and dumb” and “deaf and mute” and “hearing impaired” are considered offensive to many people in the deaf community. Hard of hearing or just Deaf are preferred by most deaf people. There are a few different types of sign language that a deaf person might use. The most common is ASL (American sign language) when signing in ASL y
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Some common words found in the essay are:
English Pidgin, Rights Act, Culture Deaf, King Jordan, Laurent Clerc, ASL American, NAD National, TDD TDD, ASL ASL, deaf people, Deaf President, sign language, deaf community, hearing community, deaf person, hearing people, deaf culture, people deaf, association deaf, hearing people deaf, french sign language, people blunt, protect deaf people, deaf people blunt, deaf culture deaf,
Approximate Word count = 1774
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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