PSYC 3505 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Intellectual Disability, Ingroups And Outgroups, Fingerspelling
11 Feb 2015
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Chapter 10 learners who are deaf or hard of hearing. Being unable to master the english language has dire effects on an individual"s integration into society. The deaf community is a strong community with its own culture. Not all deaf individuals choose to immerse themselves in the deaf community. However, the deaf community views itself as part of a cultural minority rather than disabled. The definition of deaf versus that for hard of hearing varies depending on who you ask. The two main ways that the distinction is made are: physiologically, and educationally. The hearing disability renders them unable to successfully process linguistic information through audition (with or without a hearing aid) They have enough residual hearing that enables them to successfully process linguistic information through audition (usually with a hearing aid) A person could be considered deaf by the physiological definition but hard of hearing according to the educational definition.
