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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Deaf & Hearing Culture: A Comparison of Value Systems

Presented by Dr. Linda Siple

Notes
  • Eye contact
  •  Audism discrimination
    • Sim Com can be 70% speaking, 30% signing
  • Back-channel Feedback
  • Communication over language
    • English vs. ASL = Dictionary vs. Movie
  • Jokes and Slang
    • 'The nail that stands the tallest gets hit the hardest'
Thoughts
  •  The power of proverbs and phrases to identify cultural perspectives
    • Perhaps Slang and Jokes too!
  • Visual Literacy within the co-culture of Deafness
  • The difference between culture and co-culture
    • collectivism in japan vs collectivism is deaf culture
      • deaf activism
      • services and special resources in mainstream schools

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