This type of group they are referring to is the Deaf community and are united by the Deaf culture, a culture rich in heritage and traditions (Smith, 2007). ... Deaf means profound hearing loss and hard of hearing means hearing losses that impair understanding sounds and communication. ... Students that are the members of the Deaf community, use ASL as their primary language, and typically do not use oral language as their means of communication. ... Many parents fear that if their children learn ASL as their first language, they will be excluded from mainstream society, seek out the Deaf com...

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Deaf culture, community, and hearing people As hearing people, we need to respect the Deaf culture and community. In order to do this, a hearing person needs to understand and promote cultural awareness through their community. This will provide a template for personal and social interaction through both the hearing and the Deaf communities. Padden and Humphries created three goals in which the hearing could follow to accept the Deaf community. ... A hearing person must be willing to involve the Deaf person in the their society or community. ...

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Members of the Deaf Community, and their supporters in the hearing community, have made significant strides in modifying the environment in order to make certain common activities more accessible and convenient for Deaf citizens. ... What seems like a simple task for most, used to be anything but for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. ... Similar functionality is also available through several mobile apps, such as the Z5 Mobile app that allows Deaf and hard of hearing people to make and receive point-to-point calls to/from any videophone, as well as make and receive calls to hearing peo...

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When you enter the world you could be born hearing, hearing impaired, or even without hearing. ... Hearing loss can vary from a mild but important loss, to even a total loss of hearing. In any case if hearing is lost you might consider a hearing aid to assist you in hearing, or even a cochlear implant depending on the severity. ... Not all types of hearing loss could be helped with a hearing aid. ... Caren Landis an American Sign Language professor at Rockland Community College works with several children who have had cochlear implants. ...

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Art is a unique form of expression because humans can directly play on three of the human senses, sight, taste, and hearing. Among the three senses, hearing is the primary sense. Humans rely heavily on hearing for communication. ... Music is the art of sound that pleasures hearing and it has been in existence since humans have aurally communicated with each other. ... A civil war broke out in America and when it was over the slaves were free; the slave community had just become the black community. ...

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" wrote by Simona Damian, it is says "just like spoken languages, sign languages are merged with the culture of the Deaf communities". ... And more than 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents (Mitchell, Karchmer). ... This amazing statistics have a good impact in the deaf community. ... Hearing loss occurs worldwide to both genders of all ages and races. ... Both were curious about how people with hearing disease can comprehend language in the same way of the people who are capable of hearing understood it. ...

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Too immersed in the world of the hearing, she had no real need for sign. ... Biderman discusses with us aspects of both the hearing and deaf worlds. ... Although there are many in the deaf community that are accepting of the implant, there are many that are against it. ... The deaf have almost formed their own community, and some are against "leaving" it by gaining a cochlear implant. ... I also never knew how often hearing loss occurred in children, about one in 100 are born deaf, and one in 500 develop hearing loss by the age of five (P54). ...

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Many people will agree with me about the community service matter. ... I also asked them about doing community service. ... Community service is detrimental to college students. ... We got to talking about the community service subject. ... Hearing that greatly discouraged me from doing community service. ...

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I had never before seen an entire community of the deaf" (Sacks 236). ... Sacks goes on to say that he saw a new image for the deaf people, a new strength and sense of community. ... Lane states that the hearing people have obstacles placed in their way by hearing people (the dominant culture), but could only be removed "if only they came know the deaf community" (lane 271). Lane claims that in the hearing society, "deafness is stigmatized" (Lane 270). Lane argues that hearing individuals socially construct deafness as a deficit and see deafness from their perspective. ...

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Newcastle is a growing community with more people moving to Newcastle and away from the small town communities along the Myall Lakes. ... After hearing repeated stories about the Mount Isa goldfield in Western Australia, he decided to call his new discovery 'Mount Isa'. ... The Gold Coast is a growing community and it is considered to be the fastest growing region in Australia. ... The community is growing as can be seen when you compare the population today to the one when Alice Springs was just a telegraph line....

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However, for those children who have lost their hearing since they were born and for those people whose hearing has been impaired for certain reasons such as accidents or diseases, the chance to recover impaired hearing or the sense of hearing lost has been almost impossible until recently. ... However, many critics oppose that cochlear implant will destroy deaf communities and deaf culture including American Sign Language (ASL). ... Instead, the opposition came from many people in the scientific community, especially those engaged in basic, as opposed to applied, research" (17). ... Despite a...

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In the 1690's the community of Salem Mass. was swept up in the controversy of the Salem Witch Hunts. ... The trials and hearings of these times are also very similar. ... In both time periods people were trying to keep evil out of their community or country. The motives of the accusers were very similar in the Salem Witch Trials and the 1950's HUAC Hearings. ... In both times it was made almost impossible for the accused to prove their innocence at the trials or hearings. ...

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One condition that has been looked into and researched is deafness or hearing loss. ... Others suggest that regaining hearing could be considered an enhancement, something that other members of the community don't have or an additional capability, gained by artificial means (Rosahl, 2007). ... Her parents' concerns, along with the concerns of many of the members of the deaf community, include their fear of losing the importance of deaf culture and losing their child to the hearing world. ... The father's hearing parents argue that they are preventing a cure for deafness and it i...

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Deaf Culture Culture results from a group of people coming together to form a community around shared experience and common interests. ... The word deaf is defined as without the faculty of hearing or having impaired. ... The connection to Deaf Culture among the American deaf community is American Sign Language. This community shares a similar sense of pride in their culture and language. ... In the same way there are many hearing people in the deaf community, such as children of deaf parents that are hearing but the first language that they learn is actually ASL. ...

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It is dependent on community support to enable its education program to continue. ... The tingara centre in Newcastle provides a pre-school program for children with impaired hearing and/or vision under five years old. ... The RIDBC informs the community of its function by advertising on the television, the Internet with their own website. You can find brochures about the community at your local doctor and optometrist's. They also have fundraisers and charity days to inform the community. ...

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She had accessed to Cambridge and Lynn Community. ... I was born in Boston and grew up in tough neighborhood in Dorchester, it had a lot of violence, and even the community was tough too. ... People in the community influenced her thoughts and perceptions. ... She born fully deaf or hard of hearing and it didn't stop her from being herself. ... Hearing people should understand and being treat them equally. ...

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He was very interested in the Hearing Dogs. ... In 1983, a hearing dog center opened in Lewknor. In 1986, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People became a charity. ... The TTY was a very important invention in the deaf community; it allowed them to talk through the phone without the help of someone else. ... The newer technology for products the deaf community use, make it easier for them to communicate and be heard. ...

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Most Deaf people embrace their community and would never want to change themselves in order to fit society's standards as to what is "normal." ... Cochlear implants do not restore normal hearing though, and a decision to continue as a deaf person in a hearing world, learn ASL and become a part of the Deaf community or to pursue the cochlear implant option is a major decision. ... Pierschalla had normal hearing up until his twenties when over a period of three days he lost his hearing and was "thrown into an unfamiliar world". He explains the difficulties he had understanding people wit...

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(Community Care, 2012) Health care worker require effective communication skills in order to work with diverse range of people they meet in health and social care setting. ... (Community Care, 2012) Training is another way of improving communication process, once care providers are trained to communicate effectively this will improve their working relations with both service users and fellow work colleagues. ... (Community Care, 2012) Regar...

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The most obvious difference in hearing and deaf culture is expression, i.e. signing. ... It is said that hearing people hug in an "A-frame" fashion whereas deaf people fully embrace each other. ... There are many solutions that help those who are only partially hearing. ... This device is only suitable for 1% of the deaf community and has limited results on those who are eligible and have received it. ... Although the implanted deaf child will not move easily in the hearing world, it is unlikely that he will move easily in the deaf community either, unlikely that he will learn American Sign La...

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American Sign Language has opened the door to many non-verbal autistics as it has for the deaf community. ... American Sign Language or ASL is a complex visual-spatial language that is used by the Deaf community in the United States and English speaking parts of Canada. ... American Sign Language is now being used not only for the Deaf community, but for teaching slow to develop speech and leaning disabilities, such as autism. ... American Sign Language has opened the door to many non-verbal autistics as it has for the deaf community. ... American Sign Language or ASL ...

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Sexually Abused Deaf Children Sexual abuse among the deaf community is not uncommon. Berke (2000) states, "A 1989 study showed deaf children were five times as likely to be abused as hearing children." Recent studies show deaf children twenty percent more likely to be abused than hearing children. ... According to Scanlan, MD (Elder, 1998), deaf children have less ways of learning about sexuality than hearing children. ... A greater number of individuals fluent in sign language could decrease the number of sexually abused victims among the deaf community. ...

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During the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and the Red Scare of the 1950's, communities held hearings where members of the communities accused other people of violating social morals and ethics. ... The Salem Witch Trials inspected rights made by citizens in the Massachusetts communities, in which some were young girls. ... People accused of communism were persecuted by other in the community, and later put to death. ... On the other hand, the McCarthy Hearings resulted in no deaths, also damaged reputations, and was begun by McCarthy himself. ... The McCarthy Hearings were referred to as "wit...

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Someone else pointed out how deaf people today are much more willing to spread out geographically, doing more traveling outside of their community and out of the country. Another talked about how in San Francisco (where these people lived) the hearing community recognized the sign language really well, and this makes the deaf community seem a little more respected and important. One man talked about how he loves being involved in deaf clubs and activities, but he's afraid of hearing people because he feels like they whisper secrets. ... This is do to the general sense of ignorance from wi...

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Frequently however, issues arise amongst a community that need attention. ... The three models of intervention or, Community Development', I will discuss in this essay, Social Planning', Community Development', and. Social/Community Action', all have the same aim regardless of how it is accomplished and this is to improve and maintain the conditions which affect the lives of the community. ... Initially a profile of a community will be drawn up using research methods, surveys and statistics that will highlight the issues faced by the community. ... Community developm...

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