Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
AUDISM
Audism Free America
The root of Audism is believed to have begun with the idea of phonocentrism
Which is the idea that speech and sounds have always been superior to written (and signed) language
an organization that "promotes and protects the civil liberties of Deaf people and their linguistic birthrights"
www.facebook.com/audismfreeamerica.afa
audismfreeamerican.blogspot.com
Project by: Kayla Whitaker
Sources:
http://audismfreeamerica.blogspot.com
http://www.aslta,org
http:libguides.gallaudet.edu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audism
Audism judges, limits and labels people who cannot hear.
And, that hearing loss should be considered a tragedy,
Audists believes that life without hearing is miserable.
d/Deaf individuals can be Audists, but audists are predominately hearing individuals
What is Audism?
Internalized Audism
Partially responsible for the high unemployment rate in the Deaf community
Audism is the notion that one is superior based on one's ability to hear or to behave in the manner of one who hears
- Deaf people practicing forms of audism on other deaf people
- Against people who chose not to identify with the Deaf community
- Against people who decide not to use ASL
Physical Audism
Institutional audism-
ideas in public spaces like not admitting a
d/Deaf person into a college
Audism is a form of ableism.
Ableism is the discrimination
on the basis of ability
Audism is a way of dominating the Deaf community
Linguistic Audism
In the 18th and 19th centuries, some schools banned the use of signed languages