Understanding Deafness

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Understanding Deafness
history, language the web
Lisa Herrod Accessibility 2.0 A Million Flowers
Bloom 2009
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com.au
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• Just under 9 million people in the UK are D/deaf
  or hard of hearing.
• This represents about 1 in 7 of the population.
• There are approximately 50,000 British Sign
  Language users (BSL) in the country.

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Big D DeafLittle d deaf
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The Deaf community is considered to be a
linguistic and cultural minority group, similar
to an ethnic community. Just as we capitalise the
names of ethnic communities and cultures (e.g.,
Italian, Jewish) we capitalise the name of the
Deaf community and culture. Since not all people
who are physically deaf use Auslan and identify
with the Deaf community, the d in deaf is not
capitalized when we are referring to all deaf
people or the physical condition of not hearing.
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Petra

• Female 30 39
• University Degree
• Two young children
• 65k family income
• Semi-experienced web user spends about 2 hours a
  day online.
• Flickr, IM, email, Facehook

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Petra is Big D Deaf

• General surfing online shopping
• Purchasing travel and movie tickets
• Basic literacy in English
• Auslan is her primary language

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Paul

• Male 60 69
• Retired
• Uses the web to do basic browsing and a little
  personal research for hobbies.

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Paul is little d deaf

• Has some residual hearing
• Wont wear hearing aids
• Doesnt identify with the Deaf community
• Cant sign
• Lost hearing through age and industrial injuries
  (noise)

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Sign Language
education, language history
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language

• Regional sign
• Sign language in different countries

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Why isnt there just one sign language..?
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Recently in Japan...

• New signs for 16 spoken words were devised for a
  recent social issue.
• The signs were considered indispensable for the
  understanding prior to an election.

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• Employment stop
• Ballistic missile
• Pirate
• Floating crab cannery

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Language and technology

• telephone
• TTY
• fax
• mobile
• email
• IM
• Facebook

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The Deaf Community 2.0
online social media
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Chat Coffee - famous deaf community get together
all over USA 255 followers
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Deaf Queer Resource Center. News for, by and
about the Deaf Gay, Lesbian, Bi, and Transgender
communities and our allies. 501 followers
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Facehook
17,473 members
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1514 Subscribers!
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Welcome to TagDeaf, the leading social network
for the deaf and hard of hearing on the web. Want
to meet thousands of deaf people and make new
friends?
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MyDeafLife.com is a social networking and video
entertainment site powered by Deaf people for
Deaf People. Anyone can join and enjoy
MyDeafLife.com, whether you are one person or a
club, it is free to join.
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Recommended Reading
about Deaf history, education culture
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Questions???