A World Perspective on Deaf People

Philosophy’s Real-World Consequences for Deaf People: Thoughts on Iconicity, Sign Language and Being Deaf

The body of philosophical knowledge concerning the relations among language, the senses, and deafness, interpreted as a canon of key ideas which have found their way into folk metaphysics, constitutes one of the historically sustained conditions of the oppression of deaf people. Jonathan Rée, with his book I See a Voice, makes the point that a philosophical history, grounded in a phenomenologic...

Studying Balance in Deaf People: A Systematic Review Study

Objective Damage to parts of the vestibulocochlear nerve not only results in sensory-neural hearing loss and deafness but may also lead to balance problems. This is the reason why the hearing-impaired and deaf people are struggling with balance problems. Given the ever-increasing development of the adaptive sports, specific to the deaf, who are considered as part of the active individuals in th...

Deaf people and suicide

A literature review is a search for research papers on a particular topic. In this case the topic was ‘suicide in the deaf’. Initially the researchers found 95 papers on deafness and suicide. However, when they looked at them more closely, many of the papers were not relevant. In fact they found only four papers about deafness and suicide: Boyechko 1992, Critchfi eld et al 1986, Dudzinski 1998 ...

013 Pp: Collaboration with D/deaf People in a Hearing Centric World

Mental health of deaf people.

Deafness is a heterogeneous condition with far-reaching effects on social, emotional, and cognitive development. Onset before language has been established happens in about seven per 10,000 people. Increased rates of mental health problems are reported in deaf people. Many regard themselves as members of a cultural minority who use sign language. In this Review, we describe discrepancies betwee...