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You Can Be a Better Listener
Hearing people can take listening for granted, deaf people tend to listen with more intent out of necessity. Reading lips and sign language, understanding body language, or having to concentrate harder to pick up sounds can make you more attentive.
“Deaf” may be seen as a negative occurrence because hearing loss, or hearing impairment, is often seen as disabled. As a community, we believe the complete opposite. People who are deaf do not see themselves as broken or as a disability.
Some people believe that the term “people with hearing loss” is inclusive and efficient. However, some people who were born deaf or hard of hearing do not think of themselves as having lost their hearing. Over the years, the most commonly accepted terms have come to be “deaf,” “Deaf,” and “hard of hearing.”
Members of this Deaf community regard themselves, their identity, and their interpretation of the world as the norm. They believe that deafness opens them up to membership in a community with it own rich history, language and value system rather than a disability that condemns them to a world of silence.
Similarly, body language such as posture and facial expression can completely change the meaning of a conversation for a deaf person but may only subtly change meaning for hearing people. Similarly, it is considered incredibly rude to grab a deaf person's hands while they are signing.
2- Eye Contact in the Deaf Community If talking to a Deaf person, it is considered rude not to make eye contact. Deaf people do not hear with their ears, they hear with their eyes. Everything on your face is important to people in the Deaf community, including facial expressions.
Wave your hand in their line of sight. This is how Deaf people get the attention of one another. Tap them lightly on the shoulder. If they have their back turned away from you, get the attention of somebody in their line of sight, and have that person point at you.
This term is generally agreed to be offensive toward a person or group of people. We strongly recommend you do not use this term and instead use a term not usually thought to be offensive.
Some slang words are only used by Deaf school kids (e.g. "shaking L"), some by a particular generation of Deaf people, some by Deaf families, some by Deaf people only that hearing signers shouldn't use (or it'd make them look awkward).
People who are deaf or hard of hearing are often excluded from their communities, denied equal access to basic services and face stigma and violence.
Hearing-impaired (also referred to as deaf) people think in terms of their “inner voice”. Some of them think in ASL (American Sign Language), while others think in the vocal language they learned, with their brains coming up with how the vocal language sounds.
Most hearing people experience their own voice in a silent way when thinking, which is also called “internal monologue”. Similarly, most Deaf people see pictures, ASL signs, or sometimes printed words. They see or feel their “inner signing”.
They found that the budget for a working-age person living alone who is Deaf is over 80% more than for a hearing person.
Because their deafness allows them to be a member of this supportive community, many Deaf people report that they do not want the ability to hear. According to the NAD, “Deaf people like being Deaf, want to be Deaf, and are proud of their Deafness”.
5: Deaf people are twice as likely to suffer from depression and anxiety. Life can be tough at the best of times, but when you factor in the challenges of being deaf, it's even tougher. Deaf people can become isolated, cut-off and left- out very easily, especially when others don't make enough effort to communicate.
The following terms are offensive and should not be used at all: deaf mute deaf and dumb deaf without speech They are offensive because they assume the Deaf person cannot communicate – well.
Hellen Keller
Helen Keller was a remarkable American educator, disability activist and author. She is the most famous DeafBlind person in history. In 1882, Keller was 18 months old and fell ill with an acute illness which caused her to become deaf, blind and mute.
Deaf is also a disability. You have a loss of one of the 5 senses that enable a human being to be 'normal'...
Don't Shout
Shouting at anyone is rude and shouting at someone with hearing loss is no different. Not only can it come across as aggressive, but it can also cause some hearing aid users discomfort. While you might not intend to shout, your voice might start getting louder without you realising.
You intentionally hide your conversation from a deaf person
Hiding what you are saying from a deaf person in the room is considered to be extremely rude to the deaf culture.
To get the person's attention, touch the person lightly, wave your hand or use some other physical sign. If an interpreter is being used, speak directly to the person who is deaf rather than to the interpreter.
One of the biggest taboos in Deaf society is to exclude Deaf people from conversations by "forgetting" to sign. This can create a feeling called "second-class citizenship". The United States Deaf Sports Federation (USADSF) is responsible for organizing U.S. teams to participate in the Deaflympics.