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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Deaf community"”.
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Citizenship and the deaf community
… to apply the notion to the problems faced by Deaf communities. The intention of this study is to consider whether such a concept might be a useful framework for addressing such problems and issues. The research literature on citizenship tends to be theoretical and philosophical, with little …
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Personal experience narratives in the deaf community: Identifying deaf-world typicality
The Deaf community in Britain comprises people who use British Sign Language (BSL) to communicate and who share similar lived experiences. The storied lives of Deaf people, told in the community through personal experience narratives, provide insight into the issues that arise from being Deaf in a …
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The Deaf Community and Accessible Website Design: How User-Friendliness Augments Organizational Legitimacy
… accessibility of the Internet for members of the deaf/hard-of-hearing (D/HH) community, an overlooked population in mainstream society. Fifty adult participants, with and without documented hearing loss, were recruited from several audiology and otolaryngology practices in the southeastern United …
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The Relationship between the Irish Sign Language Campaign and the Irish Deaf Community
… Sign Language Recognition campaign and the Irish Deaf community. The dissertation reviews the literature theories of Deafhood, social activism and language rights; applying the theories into the analysis of the findings. The purpose of the exploration of this relationship is to understand where …
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A survey of those in the U.S. Deaf community about reading and writing ASL
<p>On average, students who are deaf do not develop English literacy skills as well as their hearing peers. The linguistic interdependence principle suggests that literacy in American Sign Language (ASL) may improve literacy in English for students who are deaf. However, the Deaf community in the …
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Negotiating the Gray Areas of Ethical Decision Making: Deaf Therapists Working in the Deaf Community
<p>Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing psychologists, who provide services to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community, face unique dilemmas when dealing with overlapping relationships. Similar to psychologists from other small or rural communities, dual relationships are generally unavoidable. The ethical …
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Black Deaf or Deaf Black? An investigation of identity in the British Black Deaf community
… of the life experiences of a group of Black1 Deaf2 individuals and the influences affecting their identity development. It also investigates the different attitudes to deafness within the Black hearing community. A quantitative survey was conducted with 57 respondents to explore attitudes to …
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The Lived Experience of Deaf Education: How Macro Events Impact the Deaf Community and the Self
… looks to understand the lived experience of deaf education. Educational leaders seek out to improve the conditions of teaching and learning, however it seems challenging for deaf administrators to see through transformative changes within deaf education. This study seeks to understand why …
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Choosing to be deaf: leisure and sport in the deaf community of north-west England, 1945 – 1995
This thesis reconstructs the history of deaf people‘s leisure and sporting activity since World War Two. Using north-west England as a case study, the research covers a period of fifty years and has resulted in both quantitative and qualitative data being collected. The quantitative approach has …
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Investigating The Attitudes of The D/Deaf Community to wards Genetic Counseling and The Utilization of Genetic Services
<p>The Deaf community has previously expressed concerns about the process of genetic counseling/testing and the potential implications it can have for Deaf individuals. Prior studies have explored the motivations of Deaf individuals for pursuing genetic testing related to deafness; however, …
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Neslyšící členové LGBTQ komunity v České republice
The bachelor thesis Deaf members of the LGBTQ community in the Czech Republic deals with the deaf minority, the Deaf community, which is a linguistic and cultural minority, and the sexual and gender minority, which forms the LGBTQ community in the Czech Republic. How is the identity created in an …
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With Language Brings Light: Narratives by Deaf Ethiopians and their Right to Sign Language
… of this case study is to share the narratives of Deaf individuals in Ethiopia and how the Deaf community uses Deaf Community Cultural Wealth in order to explore and flourish in audist and colonized spaces. This study engaged photovoice, in a participatory action research technique that can empower …
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Implanted : technology and connection in the deaf world
… wider access to sound even to the profoundly deaf. Given adult success with the device, the FDA lowered in 1990 the required age for implantation to two years old. The following year the National Association of the Deaf published a position statement on cochlear implants comparing them to …
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Development of peer education with deaf sign language teachers in Jordan
… of sign language interpreters, teachers of the deaf, and other linkage with deaf community, and around the world, the debate of who teaches sign language has been of an ongoing argument, because of language ownership, linguistic understanding and other relevant issues. So a good sign language …
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Communication Choices, Identity, and Outcomes in Children with Cochlear Implants
… may negatively affect their child. In theory, deafness can be regarded as a social construct. Language plays a significant role within culture and, according to social identity theory, may influence children’s d/Deaf identity development. The research used a mixed-methods design to identify …
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An Ethnographic Case Study of a Deaf Workforce Collective
… and shared experiences of five members of a Deaf United States Postal Service (USPS) collective employment cohort in regards to their early learning experiences, how these experiences led to collective employment, and how the collective employment opportunity led them to establish a new …
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Employment and Employability: The Experiences and Perceptions of Deaf Graduates
Research illustrates that deaf and hard of hearing people generally experience more unemployment, are often underemployed and have lower incomes than the hearing population (MacLeod-Gallinger, 1992; RNID, 2006; The Papworth Trust, 2014). However, whilst there are increasing numbers of deaf students …
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A Descriptive Grammar of Morphosyntactic Constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL)
The Ugandan Deaf Community, consisting of approximately 25,000 sign language users, has seen significant developments in its recent history. Government recognition of sign language, establishment of schools for the deaf, and the beginnings of research into Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL) have been …
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Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response measures on deaf adults in Cape Town
International literature has evidenced that Deaf people have been disadvantaged during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, there is currently no research published within the South African context. Deaf people, as both part of the disability community and a linguistic minority, have faced unique …
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