With the awareness of the Deaf Community becoming stronger with everyday people are beginning to form two major positions on Deaf Culture. The two prevalent positions are the “pathological model” and the “cultural model”. The pathological model sees the hearing community as the norm or what is accepted, and then compares the Deaf Community and how it is different. The cultural model is distinctly different. This model looks at the Deaf Community as a complex culture that has it own rules and cultural aspects.
The pathological model obviously can and does result in oppressive attitudes and treatment. This view sees the Deaf Community as having a great burden and as a whole is completely not comparable to the hearing commu
I would recommend this article to others, it gives you a little incite to Deaf Culture it goes more into depth on the ideals of the cultural model. The article does a good job presenting different ideas and opinions even though I might not agree with some of the opinions it at least gives and explanation of both. One thing that one might have to keep in mind when reading this article is that the Deaf Community is so much deeper and divers than represented.
The cultural model sees the Deaf community as a group of people that are bonded together by a language and culture of their own. Most Deaf people and people that have been exposed to Deaf culture share this opinion. This model sees the Deaf Community just as if it was any other culture rather it be Spanish
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