deaf culture
Hearing-loss heritage
The practices, values, and shared experiences of communities built around sign language and deafness.
Deaf culture emphasizes visual communication, celebrates deaf identity, and often views deafness not as a disability but as a difference.
She learned about deaf culture when she started studying ASL.
The term typically appears lowercase, though some style guides capitalize it. (Capitalized Deaf culture emphasizes the cultural identity aspect.)
- sign languageVisual-gestural communication system
- ASLManual visual communication system
- signingInscribing one's name
- interpreterOne who conveys meaning between languages
- relay serviceAssisted communication channel
video phone · closed captioning · hearing aids · fingerspelling · lipreading · TTY · visual language · accessibility · bilingual education · hands · gestures · visual · visual communication · nonverbal communication · accessibility standards · vibrations · mute · expression
- Deaf Resourcessign language books
- hearingear, cochlea, hearing loss, hearing test, hearing aid
- culturesMediterranean cultures, subculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground
- DeafnessAmerican Sign Language, sign language interpreters, hearing aids, lip reading, Gallaudet
- disabilitydisability rights, disability activism, disability services, disability identity, disability law
- sign languageAmerican Sign Language, British Sign Language, fingerspelling, ASL, handshape
deaf cultureaudism
Prejudice against deaf individuals
oral culture · oralism · hearing world · normalization · speech therapy
culture, deaf, deafness, auditory, cochlear implant, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, Deaflympics, deaf-mute