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'''[[Deaf President Now]]:''' The [[1988]] student strike at [[Gallaudet University]] was a watershed moment in the awareness of Deaf culture by the dominant American hearing culture. DPN student organizers and allies forced the university, which, after all, served an all-deaf and hearing-impaired population, to select its first deaf president. Perhaps more importantly, the movement helped frame the struggle of deaf people within the context of a civil rights movement. Indeed, for Deaf people, language is an essential, basic civil right that has been denied to them many times throughout history. Having a leader who can fully understand and relate to this principle was considered vital to the Deaf population.
'''[[Deaf President Now]]:''' The [[1988]] student strike at [[Gallaudet University]] was a watershed moment in the awareness of Deaf culture by the dominant American hearing culture. DPN student organizers and allies forced the university, which, after all, served an all-deaf and hearing-impaired population, to select its first deaf president. Perhaps more importantly, the movement helped frame the struggle of deaf people within the context of a civil rights movement. Indeed, for Deaf people, language is an essential, basic civil right that has been denied to them many times throughout history. Having a leader who can fully understand and relate to this principle was considered vital to the Deaf population.


'''[[Cultural Centre]]:'''Also in the UK a charity called the [[Dorothy Miles Cultural Centre]] (DMCC), based in [[Guildford]], exists to bridge the gap between deaf and hearing people through social, cultural and educational activities. The Centre also offers courses in [[British Sign Language]] (BSL) which are accredited by the [[Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People]] (CACDP). DMCC runs drama workshops involving professional actors and organises sporting events, including an annual cricket match. There is also widespread availability of BSL courses from other providers across the UK. Nearly all terrestrial television is [[Closed captioning|closed captioned]].
'''[[Cultural Centre]]:''' Also in the UK a charity called the [[Dorothy Miles Cultural Centre]] (DMCC), based in [[Guildford]], exists to bridge the gap between deaf and hearing people through social, cultural and educational activities. The Centre also offers courses in [[British Sign Language]] (BSL) which are accredited by the [[Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People]] (CACDP). DMCC runs drama workshops involving professional actors and organises sporting events, including an annual cricket match. There is also widespread availability of BSL courses from other providers across the UK. Nearly all terrestrial television is [[Closed captioning|closed captioned]].


In the spring, 2006,The Deaf Culture Centre opened at the historic culture, arts and entertainment Distillery District in the heart of Old Town Toronto . A project of the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, it will feature a museum, art gallery, gift shop, research and archives, state-of-the-art visually rich technology highlighting Deaf historical artifacts, literature, ASL/LSQ interactive website/television and multimedia production studio.
In the spring, 2006,The Deaf Culture Centre opened at the historic culture, arts and entertainment Distillery District in the heart of Old Town Toronto . A project of the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, it will feature a museum, art gallery, gift shop, research and archives, state-of-the-art visually rich technology highlighting Deaf historical artifacts, literature, ASL/LSQ interactive website/television and multimedia production studio.

Revision as of 16:20, 30 October 2006

Deaf community and Deaf culture are two phrases used to refer to persons who are culturally Deaf as opposed to those who are deaf from the medical/audiological/pathological perspective. When used in the cultural sense, the word deaf is very often capitalized.

Background

Being unable to hear is considered by some to only a part of being Deaf. Many people that are labeled hearing or hard-of-hearing from the medical perspective are labeled or would label themselves as Deaf from the cultural perspective. Similarly, a person who self-identifies as Deaf may in fact have much more hearing than one who self-identifies as either hearing or hard-of-hearing. The use of the cultural label can be a declaration of personal identity instead of an explanation of hearing ability.

Mainstream recognition of Deaf culture

For much of history, deaf people were expected to adapt to hearing culture as best they were able or to be hidden or invisible. Recently, especially in the United States and the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland) the existence of a Deaf culture have been increasingly recognized. (Charlotte Baker, 1980)

Deaf President Now: The 1988 student strike at Gallaudet University was a watershed moment in the awareness of Deaf culture by the dominant American hearing culture. DPN student organizers and allies forced the university, which, after all, served an all-deaf and hearing-impaired population, to select its first deaf president. Perhaps more importantly, the movement helped frame the struggle of deaf people within the context of a civil rights movement. Indeed, for Deaf people, language is an essential, basic civil right that has been denied to them many times throughout history. Having a leader who can fully understand and relate to this principle was considered vital to the Deaf population.

Cultural Centre: Also in the UK a charity called the Dorothy Miles Cultural Centre (DMCC), based in Guildford, exists to bridge the gap between deaf and hearing people through social, cultural and educational activities. The Centre also offers courses in British Sign Language (BSL) which are accredited by the Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People (CACDP). DMCC runs drama workshops involving professional actors and organises sporting events, including an annual cricket match. There is also widespread availability of BSL courses from other providers across the UK. Nearly all terrestrial television is closed captioned.

In the spring, 2006,The Deaf Culture Centre opened at the historic culture, arts and entertainment Distillery District in the heart of Old Town Toronto . A project of the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, it will feature a museum, art gallery, gift shop, research and archives, state-of-the-art visually rich technology highlighting Deaf historical artifacts, literature, ASL/LSQ interactive website/television and multimedia production studio.

Books

  • Padden, Carol and Humphries, Tom (1988). Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Lane, Harlan, Hoffmeister, Robert, and Bahan, Ben (1996). A Journey into the Deaf-World. San Diego, CA: Dawn Sign Press.
  • Van Cleve, John Vickrey and Crouch, Barry A., A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America, 1989, ISBN 0-930323-49-1.
  • Raymond Luczak, Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader, 1993, ISBN 1-55583-204-0.
  • Carol A. Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture, 2005, ISBN 0-674-01506-1.
  • Padden, Carol (1996). From the cultural to the bicultural: the modern Deaf community. in Parasnis I, ed. 1996. "Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press
  • Oliver W. Sacks, Seeing Voices; A Journey Into The World Of The Deaf, 1989, ISBN 0-520-06083-0.
  • Pizzo, Rose, "Growing Up Deaf: Issues of Communication in a Hearing World", 2001, ISBN 1-4010-2887-X
  • Moore, Matthew S. & Levitan, Linda (2003). For Hearing People Only, Answers to Some of the Most Commonly Asked Questions About the Deaf Community, its Culture, and the "Deaf Reality", Rochester, New York: Deaf Life Press, ISBN 0-9634-016-3-7.

See also

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