Negotiating (Genetic) Deafness in a Bedouin Community

Kisch, Shifra

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“…Similarly, in India, teachers, government bureaucrats and clinicians promote CI and perceive sign language and socialization among DHH people as detrimental to their integration into the hearing society (Friedner, 2018). Among a Bedouin minority in Israel, children who are singled out as candidates for CI become segregated from kindergarten onwards to enter mainstream schools, which limits their opportunities for communication with deaf signers (Kisch, 2012).…”

Section: Cochlear Implant (Ci) Interferencementioning

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“…Identities of DHH people are multiple, complex and contingent (Ahmad et al., 2002). Deafness thus intersects with various sexual orientations (David & Cruz, 2018; Moreman & Briones, 2018), genders (Kisch, 2012), ethnicities and classes. In China, the government has been “civilizing” DHH people who belong to various ethnic minorities through free distribution of CI and the promotion of spoken Chinese and Chinese Sign Language at the cost of local sign languages (Hofer & Sagli, 2017).…”

Section: Cochlear Implant (Ci) Interferencementioning

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“…Yet in medical and popular discourses CI is often promoted as a "cure" for deafness (Copeland & Pillsbury, 2004;Garud, 2008;Mauldin, 2019). This trend has been found in countries around the world, from USA (Foss, 2014), India (Mohanty & Mishra, 2020), Japan (Valentine, 2001), Australia (Power, 2005), Israel (Kisch, 2012) to China (Lytle et al, 2005). Online, CI is propagated through "inspiration porn" in the form of viral video clips showing DHH people's touching reactions after being implanted and receiving "the gift of sound" (Lloyd & Bonventre, 2020;Saunders, 2016, p. 5).…”

Section: Deafness As Pathologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Technological socialities: The impact of information and communication technologies on belonging among deaf and hard‐of‐hearing people

Ahlin

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2023

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This review article examines how different types of communication technologies, from the specialized medical to generic social devices, influence belonging and sociality among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people. The emphasis is on DHH adolescents and young adults who may be impacted differently across countries, given state-specific policies regarding the status of sign language and deaf education, and based on different availability, affordability, and accessibility of communication technologies. We introduce different perspectives on deafness, ranging from pathological to cultural, a heuristic on which we build to explore DHH socialities as complex and evolving. We then analytically review ethnographic research on how cochlear implants impact DHH people's belonging to the "deaf world" and/or the "hearing world," and how they navigate between these worlds. Then we move on to technologies such as text messages and social media, which enable DHH people to extend their socialities beyond local communities. Belonging is a fluid phenomenon, and technologies which are in a constant process of innovation and development may influence it in complex ways. We argue that to explore questions of belonging, identity, and sociality among DHH people, and

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The grammar of space in two new sign languages

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Sign languages use space because they can. 1 In previous work on verb agreement in sign languages, we have discussed "the ability of a language produced in space to represent certain spatial and visual concepts iconically" (Aronoff, Meir, & Sandler, 2005). We resolved in that work what we called "the paradox of sign language morphology." Although all sign languages that had been well studied up to that point showed a particular form of complex simultaneous non-affixal verb agreement that has no simple parallel in the morphology of spoken languages, they did not show much 'run of the mill' sequential affixal morphology. Why should a language acquire complex morphology before it acquires simple morphology, why sign languages, and why this particular sort of morphology? We argued that the agreement morphology of sign languages is based on an iconic use of space, which sign languages * Our work is supported by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (R01 DC 6473) and the Israel Science Foundation (#553/04). Thanks to Sara Lanseman for her help in obtaining the ISL data, and to Adi Lifshitz for her help in coding and organizing the ISL data.

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Disablement, Gender, and Deafhood among the Negev Arab-Bedouin

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Negotiating (Genetic) Deafness in a Bedouin Community

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Technological socialities: The impact of information and communication technologies on belonging among deaf and hard‐of‐hearing people

Technological socialities: The impact of information and communication technologies on belonging among deaf and hard‐of‐hearing people

The grammar of space in two new sign languages

Disablement, Gender, and Deafhood among the Negev Arab-Bedouin

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