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Audism - family

  • While hanging out with their family, deaf people felt/were left out.
  • None of their family members were willing to interpret what was being said for them.
  • They'll say "I'll tell you later" but then never tell them.
  • The family grows farther apart.
  • When parents decided to take sign language classes, it helped deaf people a lot.
  • Communication between them was not difficult

Why were Deaf people considered "Sub-Human"?

  • The family was able to grow closer.
  • they communicate with their hands instead of with their tongue

AUDISM - CURE

SCIENCE

  • Genetics/science, technology, and medicine allows us to pinpoint the source of deafness inside the body of a deaf person.
  • Many surgeries and medical procedures have been created to try and “fix” deaf people.
  • The development of hearing devices and surgical procedures shows how far society is willing to go to force speech on the human body.

How is Audism like other forms of oppression?

AUDISM - CURE

PARENTS

  • Audism and Racism:
  • When hearing parents realize that they've given birth to a deaf child, they're devastated and start looking for ways to "fix" their child.
  • Deaf Community ("inferior") looked down upon by hearing/speaking world ("superior")
  • Religion
  • Science and Medicine

AUDISM - CURE

  • one race ("inferior") is looked down upon by another race ("superior")
  • Three ways to prevent birth of deaf baby:
  • Screening possible fertilized eggs for deafness
  • Audism and Sexism:
  • Amniocentesis
  • Cure
  • deaf people can’t do all the things that hearing people can do like belief
  • Deaf people were among the undesirables.
  • There were three ways to get rid of undesirables that eugenicists used :
  • women can’t do all the things a man can do
  • Prevent Entry into Country

AUDISM UNVEILED

  • Sterilization
  • Euthanasia

AUDISM - EDUCATION

DEAF SCHOOL EDUCATION VS MAINSTREAM SCHOOL EDUCATION

  • With deaf schools and programs, there was full communication because everyone signs.
  • With mainstream schools, communication was between the student and interpreter and the interpreter and teacher only.

What is Audism?

  • The kids miss out on what's going on in mainstream schools, but not in deaf schools.

By: Diane DeLosSantos

  • the discrimination of deaf people.

AUDISM - EDUCATION

  • when a person who can hear and speak believes that they are superior to a person who can not hear and/or speak
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - it placed deaf children into a mainstream environment which was believed to be the least restrictive environment
  • Interpreters weren't always of great use to the deaf students and didn't always do their job.

AUDISM - EDUCATION

MAINSTREAM SCHOOL EDUCATION

  • ASL was an inferior language and was therefore banned from use in most schools.
  • The school hoped to teach deaf kids how to speak so that they can be at the same level as their hearing peers.
  • Teachers forced students to dump ASL and pick up Manually Coded English.
  • Teachers realized deaf students were visual learners and that ASL did had value.

Reflection

  • Deaf students did grammar drills and copied writing from the blackboard for hours.

1. What did I learn?

2. How did this experience enhance my understanding of ASL/Deaf Culture?

3. Would I recommend this topic to other students interested in learning about the Deaf Community?

AUDISM - resistance

4. Did you know anything about this topic prior?

  • Deaf people didn't turn the other cheek when it came to oppression.

5. Did it reinforce concepts taught in class?

  • If enough discrimination cases are taken to court, attitudes eventually will change and audism will be diminished.
  • Deaf people and hard of hearing people need to stand up when they see discrimination or a law being broken.
  • All deaf people want is to be treated as equals, to be seen as human because they are.

Audism - Resistance

Deaf Art

  • Deaf people's anger and frustration was mirrored in their art.
  • Deaf art depicts the value of deaf culture, history, and language.

Audism - Resistance

Deaf president now movement

  • Because so many people joined the Deaf President Now movement, the movement was able to impart a bigger impact and bigger influence than the small group that had started the movement was able to.
  • The Deaf President Now movement influenced
  • Development of the department of Deaf Studies at Gallaudet
  • Deaf studies programs at campuses around the world
  • Deaf Education
  • Closed Captioning
  • Legal Protection
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