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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"deaf studies"”.
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SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MAINSTREAM DEAF COLLEGE STUDENT WRITERS: THREE INSTITUTIONAL CASE STUDIES
… acknowledges the fact that research regarding deaf student writers at the post-secondary level is practically void. To initiate an avenue of research that is meant to foreground future research regarding support services for deaf college student writers, I set out to find how college …
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Experiential Commensurability and Identity Correspondence: Examining Deaf Culture Movement Collective Identity in the United States
… collective identities within the context of the Deaf Culture Movement (DCM) in the United States. Though social movement researchers assume that identities, culture, beliefs, and values are developments of interactional processes, the current literature remains considerably one sided in its …
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Deaf refugees in Jordan : a conceptual framework of agency and double displacement
Displaced people and deaf people face marginalization and barriers worldwide. The agency and perspective of displaced, deaf, or disabled persons or communities is often deprioritized, stigmatized, or erased. This study inverts that dynamic and looks at the intersection of deaf and displaced …
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EXPLORING THE ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: LEXICAL BORROWING FROM CISTERCIAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND FRENCH SIGN LANGUAGE
… is the natural and preferred language of the Deaf community in both the United States and Canada. Woodward (1978) estimated that approximately 60% of the ASL lexicon is derived from early 19th century French Sign Language, which is known as langue des signes française (LSF). The lexicon …
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De pessoa com deficiência auditiva a surdo: embates dialógicos e objetificação colonial no processo de transição identitária
… inclusive perspective, the special education and deaf studies have fought battles in the academic field regarding the deaf people along the last years. In what concerns to the social issue, there were many distinct approaches and focuses adopted, which even culminated in different terminologies. …
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Silent Punishment: The Experiences of d/Deaf Prisoners
While studies about minority group prisoners are becoming more commonplace in prison research, knowledge about the experiences of hard of hearing (HoH) and d/Deaf prisoners remains limited. A primary aim of this thesis is to provide a more comprehensive understanding about the lives of HoH/d/Deaf …
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Voices through my hands: An auto-ethnographic study of the lived experiences of a South African child of Deaf adults
… the lived experiences of hearing children of Deaf adults (CODAs) within the South African context that this study attempts to address. Most African publications examining issues of Deafness focus on the experience of Deaf people themselves. Not much attention is given to the fact that children …
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A educação do surdo como modalidade da educação básica: uma alternativa para superar suas contradições com a educação especial?
… the proposals of the special education field and deaf education (special education oppose the maintenance of deaf schools, while the deaf studies argue that such schools are essential to the development of the deaf) ; perceived that such contradictions do not concern the choice of the best space …
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Crossing from Hearing to Deaf Worlds: Hearing Border Crossers as Participatory Designers in Healthcare Instruction
<p>The Deaf population faces substantial communication barriers in accessing quality health care. Many healthcare professionals struggle to communicate with Deaf individuals because they have little awareness of how to interact with these patients in culturally sensitive ways. This study sought to …
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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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Towards co-production of technology artefacts with a disabled community: A case study with deaf people and protection of personal information with video relay services
… artefacts when working with marginalised Deaf people, particularly concerning their privacy needs surrounding a video relay service. Deaf people throughout the world, including those in South Africa, experience difficulty in essential communication in an environment that mainly comprises …
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'You are all my people': building disabled community in Uganda's microentrepreneur economy
… long-term relationships providing care and (for deaf members) communication assistance based on linguistic community, repurposing disability movement-derived resources to foster them. In this space, obligations turn on what I call ‘claims in relationship,’ a concept that blends theoretical work …