Topic > Deafness Reflection Paper - 730

In this perspective, people who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) are characterized as deficient or disabled due to their hearing loss which needs to be addressed through hearing-based deafness gain medical and technological point of view and normalization process (Bauman & Murray, 2010). On the other hand, the cultural/social perspective of deafness is anchored in the idea that deafness concerns the Deaf community considered as a linguistic minority. In this perspective, DHH people are characterized based on their way of life reflected in their unique identity: culturally deaf identity, culturally hearing identity, or bicultural identity (Scheetz,