Deaf Culture

“Writing allows people to convey information to others who are remote in time and space, vastly increasing the range over which people can cooperate and the amount they can learn.” In our society, writing is a skill that we probably use every day. Writing is a language all of its own. It is a tool that we use to communicate with those who are nearby and those far away. When learning to write, there is a lot that goes into that skill. When learning to write, students use phonics to familiarize themselves with letters that make the correct sounds, based on the letter sounds they already know. Often, students who are deaf struggle to write because they are unable to connect letter sounds to what they write, as they do not have that knowledge and

Not everyone can connect sounds with the corresponding letter, or break up the word based on those sounds, or make up a song to remember the order of seemingly arbitrary items, specifically, the deaf. Today, many deaf individuals consider themselves to be part of a unique group of individuals with their own culture and their own values in life. For many, they consider themselves to be part of the deaf culture when they are born to deaf parents and attend a school for hearing impaired individuals. Often, people who consider themselves to be part of this community also share in the signed language and may marry within the cultural community. According to Clark and Doggett (2015, p. 196) “The Deaf Identity Development Scale was created in the 1990s to measure how deaf people relate to the Deaf community and Deaf culture.” This scale considers individuals are audio logically deaf, and those who are culturally deaf, and everyone in between. In 2000, there was a similar study conducted, concluding that those who considered themselves to be bicultural, or culturally deaf, had higher confidence than those who did not have a positive attitude toward deaf