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How does deafness affect identity?
What is deaf culture?
Deaf people are members of a unique culture with its own language, history, shared experiences, and identity. Some discover this culture from the start of their lives and go through specialized educational settings, residential schools, and colleges for the deaf. Some are born to hearing parents and consider themselves part of the hearing culture and attend normal schools, churches, etc. In this chapter it will be explored how being deaf influences one's sense of membership and belonging within an ethnic/racial culture and how race/ethnicity affects someone's identity as culturally deaf.
What is Glickman’s (1996) model of the development of culturally deaf identities?
Glickman´s model follows a stage theory approach in which deaf people move through four stages of identity. The first two stages (culturally hearing and culturally marginal) are characterized by ¨hearing¨, a pathological view of deafness, depression, confusion, and
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