deaf rights
Advocacy for hearing-impaired
Deaf rights refers to the social and political movement advocating for the rights, accessibility, and equal treatment of deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Central concerns include access to sign language interpreters, captioning, educational accommodations, and recognition of Deaf culture as a distinct linguistic community rather than a disability to be fixed: The deaf rights movement has pushed back against cochlear implants being framed as a cure.
- hearing worldNon-deaf mainstream society
- inclusive educationTeaching all abilities together
- respectRegard with honor
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- equal opportunityUnbiased chance for all
storytelling traditions · anti-discrimination laws · community outreach · closed captioning · relay services · cultural festivals · legal representation · civil liberties · policy reform · cochlear implants · mainstreaming · ADA · sign language interpreters · cochlear · assistive technology · activism · accommodation · ASL
- DeafnessAmerican Sign Language, sign language interpreters, hearing aids, lip reading, Gallaudet
- disabilitydisability culture, disability activism, disability services, disability identity, disability law
- sign languageAmerican Sign Language, British Sign Language, fingerspelling, ASL, handshape
- social movementswomen's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement, environmental movement
- hearing aidshearing aids, hearing aid, behind-the-ear, digital hearing aids, in-the-ear