hearing world
Sound-based community
The hearing world refers to mainstream society as experienced by people who can hear, viewed from the perspective of deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals.
The term emphasizes that social norms, communication methods, and institutions are designed around spoken language: Growing up deaf, she always felt like an outsider in the hearing world.
It implies a cultural divide between deaf communities and the dominant hearing majority.
- deafUnable to hear
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- auditoryOf or relating to hearing
- spokenExpressed in words aloud
- spoken languageAudible verbal communication system
listening · cochlear · sign language · mainstream · oral · sound · sound waves · communication · lip-reading · community · isolation · interpreter · speech · voices · phone calls · music · background noise · noise
- Deaf cultureASL, sign language, signing, signer, name sign
- deaf accesssign language, ASL, closed captions, captions, captioning