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Diversity: Disability and Deaf Studies
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IntroductionIt has long been held that disability like race, is a socially constructed notion. Despite the seeming arbitrariness in which labels and categories are placed upon certain populations, doing so creates a pervasive divide where deaf individuals are concerned. Once an individual is formally labeled as being “disabled,” it is the branding of a being that is nearly impossible to undo. Joseph Valente writes of the “colonization” of young deaf bodies, which occurs the minute a particular institution has gained control of, categorized, labeled, and publicly declare a young (or older) individual to be ‘deaf.’ In doing so, a label is forced upon a person’s psyche involuntarily, without providing for a natural journey to becoming deaf, as is evidenced in Genie Gertz’s examination of surdesence. ...
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- Deaf Community
- Africa, Eastern: Deaf Community
- Africa, Middle: Deaf Community
- Africa, Southern: Deaf Community
- Africa, Western: Deaf Community
- Asia, Southeast: Deaf Community
- Asia, Southern: Deaf Community
- Asia, Western: Deaf Community
- Canada: Deaf Community
- Central America: Deaf Community
- Deaf International Development
- Japan: Deaf Community
- Puerto Rico: Deaf Community
- South America: Deaf Community
- United States: Deaf Community
- Deaf Community: Diversity
- Diversity: Disability and Deaf Studies
- Diversity: First Nation Peoples of North America
- Diversity: LGBTQI
- Diversity: Women
- Deaf Community: Health
- Aphasia and Brain Lesions
- Autism Spectrum
- Early Intervention and Newborn Screening
- Genetic Counseling
- Genetics and Heredity
- Genetics: Connexin 26 and Connexin 30
- Hearing Conditions and Auditory Disorders, Causes of
- Hearing Conditions, Screening and Assessment
- Mental Health
- Mental Health Services
- Social Hearing Handicap Index
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Substance Abuse
- Deaf Community: History
- Biblical Tradition, References to Deaf in
- Civil War, U.S.: Deaf History of and Participation in
- Deaf History: 1300-1800
- Deaf History: 1800-1880
- Deaf History: 1881-1920
- Deaf History: 1921-1980
- Deaf History: 1981 to Present
- Deaf History: Antiquity
- Deaf History: Caribbean
- Deaf History: Central America
- Deaf History: Eastern Asia
- Deaf History: Eastern Europe
- Deaf History: Middle Africa
- Deaf History: Northern Europe
- Deaf History: Oceania
- Deaf History: South America
- Deaf History: Southeast Asia
- Deaf History: Southern Africa
- Deaf History: Southern Asia
- Deaf History: Western Europe
- Religious Materials, Access to Translated
- Science, Deaf History of and Participation in
- Sports, Deaf History of
- War, Deaf History of and Participation in
- Women, Deaf: History of
- World War II, Deaf History of
- Deaf Community: Organizations
- Education: Professional Organizations
- Interpreting: Professional Organizations
- Medicine: Professional Organizations
- Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc., Formation of
- Deaf Community: Psychology and Sociology
- Bullying
- Child Welfare and Child Abuse
- Cochlear Implant: Deaf Community
- Crime and Delinquency
- Domestic Violence and Services
- Misdiagnosis of Deaf People
- Neuropsychology
- Oralism, Psychological Effects of
- Psychological Evaluations and Testing
- Psychology, Multicultural
- Social Work
- Socioemotional Development
- Sociology of Deaf People
- Deaf Community: Social Patterns
- Adoption
- Catholicism
- Christianity
- Demographics
- Genealogy, Deaf History of
- Genetics and Ancestry
- Islam
- Mentors and Role Models
- Missionaries
- Mormonism
- Parent Education
- Summer Programs
- Theology
- Volunteerism
- Deaf Culture: Art
- Actors
- Art and Literature, Deaf History of and Participation in
- Art Genres and Movements
- Artists
- Artists in Residency
- Arts, Performing
- Deaf Art
- Deaf Professionals in American Art Museums
- De’VIA Manifesto
- Digital Arts
- Magicians
- Music, Signed
- Rhythm Stories and Songs, Signed
- Theater, Adapted
- Theater, Original
- Deaf Culture: Literature
- Books
- Folklore
- Literature, Deaf Characters in
- Literature, Deaf Themes in
- Poetry
- Poetry, Signed
- Poetry, Signed: Themes of
- Sign Language Literature
- Writers
- Deaf Culture: Media
- Deaf Cinema
- Film: Deaf Characters
- Film: Documentaries
- Film: Silent, Indies, and Post-Talkies Era
- Media, Stereotype of Deaf People in
- Television: Cultural Deaf Programming
- Television: Mainstream Programming
- Deaf Education: Educational Programs
- Education Programs: K-12 Charter Schools
- Education Programs: K-12 Day Schools
- Education Programs: K-12 Mainstream Programs
- Education Programs: K-12 Oral Schools
- Education Programs: K-12 Residential Schools
- Education Settings, Placement in
- Education, Early Intervention in
- Education: Higher Education
- Education: Transition
- Deaf Education: History
- Deaf Education History: 1980 to Present
- Deaf Education History: Milan 1880
- Deaf Education History: Post-1880 to 1979
- Deaf Education History: Pre-1880
- Education, History of Total Communication in
- Hearing People in Deaf Education
- Residential Schools, History of
- Residential Schools, Segregation in
- Deaf Education: Philosophy
- Combined Method, Philosophy and Models of
- Oralism, Philosophy and Models of
- Sign Systems, Cued Speech
- Sign Systems, Methodical
- Special Education, Philosophy and Models of
- Teaching Profession, Philosophies of
- Deaf Education: Policy and Curriculum
- Academic Test Bias
- Assessment Accommodations and Testing Modifications
- Classroom, Signing in the
- Educational Assessment Measures
- Individualized Education Program and Least Restrictive Environment, Placement in
- Journals, Deaf Education
- Mainstreaming and Social Capital
- Teacher Training, Bilingual
- Teaching Profession, Preparation for
- Teaching Profession, Requirements of
- Deaf Studies
- Deaf Centrism and Deaf Centricity
- Deaf Crit
- Deaf Gain
- Deaf Studies
- Deaf Studies Programs
- Deaf Studies: Disability Studies Perspective and Controversy
- Deaf Theory
- deaf/Deaf: Origins and Usage
- DeafSpace
- Dysconscious Audism
- Geographies
- Journals, Deaf Studies
- Transnationalism
- Deaf Studies: Social Justice
- Audism
- Bioethics
- Deaf Dean Now Protest
- Deaf Drivers and Deaf Workers: Advocacy Work of the National Association for the Deaf
- Deaf President Now Protest
- Deaf Rights Activism, Global Protests
- Driving Restrictions Protests
- Equality Issues
- Eugenics
- Unity for Gallaudet Protest
- Employment
- Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
- Employment: Affirmative Action
- Employment: Career Opportunities and Choices
- Employment: Depression and the New Deal
- Employment: Government Assistance
- Employment: Labor Bureaus
- Employment: Oppression
- Employment: Peddling
- Employment: Rehabilitation Services Administration
- Employment: U.S. Works Progress Administration
- Identity
- Children of Deaf Adults
- Children, Deaf, of Deaf Parents
- Children, Deaf, of Hearing Parents
- Deaf Culture
- Deafhood
- Group Membership and Exclusion
- Identity Development
- Labeling
- Surdescence
- Language: Attitudes and Planning
- Bilingualism, Philosophy and Models of
- International Day of Sign Language
- Language Attitudes
- Language: Oralism Versus Manualism
- Linguicism
- Linguistic Genocide
- Literacy
- Manualism, Philosophy and Models of
- Sign Language, Endangered
- Sign Languages, Recognition of
- Signed Language Policy
- Signed Language Rights, Attitudes Toward
- Language: Interpreting
- Interpreter Training, University
- Interpreting
- Interpreting, Categories of
- Interpreting, History of
- Interpreting, Legal
- Interpreting, Medical
- Interpreting: Agencies
- Interpreting: Deaf Interpreter
- Interpreting: Tasks
- National Multicultural Interpreter Project
- Language: Linguistics
- Bilingualism
- Cognitive Processes
- Deaf Learners, Cognition of
- Language Acquisition and Development
- Language Assessment Tools
- Language Contact of Spoken and Signed Languages
- Linguistics: Etymology
- Linguistics: Generativism
- Linguistics: Gestures and Homesigns
- Linguistics: Morphology
- Linguistics: Nonmanual Markers
- Linguistics: Phonetics
- Linguistics: Phonology
- Linguistics: Pragmatics
- Linguistics: Semantics
- Linguistics: Spatial Grammar
- Linguistics: Structuralism
- Linguistics: Syntax
- Multilingualism
- Nativism
- Neurolinguistics and Cortex Imaging
- Psycholinguistics, Milestones in
- Psycholinguistics, Primary
- Psycholinguistics: Visual Processing
- Sign Language Research: 1980 to Present
- Sign Language Research: Pre-1980
- Signed Language Linguistics, History of
- Sociolinguistics: Black American Sign Language
- Sociolinguistics: Dialects, Regionalisms, and Ethnic Varieties
- Sociolinguistics: Registers
- Language: Sign Language
- American Sign Language and English Literacy, Interdependence of
- American Sign Language, Positive Psychological Effects of
- Baby Signs
- International Signs
- Languages, Natural
- Sign Language as Academic Language
- Sign Language Teaching, Curriculum Models of
- Sign Language Teaching, Foreign Language Requirements for
- Sign Language Teaching, History of
- Sign Language Teaching, Training for
- Sign Language, Hawaiian
- Sign Language, Indigenous
- Sign Language: Africa
- Sign Language: Arabic Fingerspelling
- Sign Language: Caribbean
- Sign Language: Central America
- Sign Language: Eastern Europe
- Sign Language: Japan
- Sign Language: JSL Fingerspelling
- Sign Language: Name Signs
- Sign Language: One-Handed Fingerspelling
- Sign Language: Pacific Region
- Sign Language: Scandinavia
- Sign Language: South America
- Sign Language: Southern Asia
- Sign Language: Southern Europe
- Sign Language: Tactile
- Sign Language: Two-Handed Fingerspelling
- Sign Language: United Kingdom and Ireland
- Sign Language: Western Asia
- Sign Writing
- Signed Language Literacy, Definition of
- Signed Language Pathology
- Signing Communities
- Law and Public Policy
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Architectural Barriers Act of 1968
- Camenisch v. University of Texas
- Commission on the Education of the Deaf
- Communications Act: Section 255
- Community Television of Southern California v. Gottfried
- Costner v. United States
- Department of Education, U.S.
- Eckstein v. Kirby
- Education Laws, Federal: Impact on Education of the Deaf
- Education of the Deaf Act of 1986
- Flail v. Bolger
- Hendrick Hudson Board of Education v. Rowley
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 2008
- Jackson v. Indiana
- Jones v. Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services
- Legislation, Disability
- Legislation, Interpreter
- Legislation, Proposed: Assembly Bill 2072
- Legislation, Proposed: House Bill 1367
- Legislation, United States
- Legislators
- Linguistic and Human Rights Ratifications, European Union
- Linguistic and Human Rights, Constitutional Recognitions of
- Linguistic Minority Law, International
- People of Illinois v. Lang
- Public Policy Issues
- Pyles v. Kamka
- Schornstein v. New Jersey Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Southeastern Community College v. Davis
- Strathie v. Department of Transportation
- Telecommunications Act of 1996
- UN Convention on Genocide
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
- UNESCO Education Position Paper (2003)
- Technology
- Avatar Technology
- Captioning
- Captioning Technology, Media
- FAX Technology
- Hearing Aids
- Hearing Mechanisms, Internal
- Inventors
- Social Media
- Technology, Assistive
- Technology, Tactile
- Technology, Wireless
- Teletypewriter (TTY)
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