Deaf And Disabled Or Deafness Disabled

Author : Mairian Corker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deaf and Disabled, Or Deafness Disabled? written by Mairian Corker and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deaf people are subject to different concepts of the deaf and disabled, and their place within society. There is a danger that some deaf people will become marginalized within the prevailing policy or service framework, which, in itself, mitigates against full rights, choice and participation. There is therefore a great need to identify a common language for the experience of oppression and empowerment which all deaf people can share without sacrificing their rights to self-definition.

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780014
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enforcing Normalcy written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term "normal" as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonized subjects, but of its physically disabled minority. In a fascinating chapter on contemporary cultural theory, Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality. And in a treatment of nudes and fragmented bodies in Western art, he shows how the ideal of physical wholeness is both demanded and denied in the classical aesthetics of representation. Enforcing Normalcy redraws the boundaries of political and cultural discourse. By insisting that disability be added to the familiar triad of race, class and gender, the book challenges progressives to expand the limits of their thinking about human oppression.

Author : Mairian Corker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780335197002
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deaf and Disabled, Or Deafness Disabled? written by Mairian Corker and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deaf people are subject to different concepts of the deaf and disabled, and their place within society. There is a danger that some deaf people will become marginalized within the prevailing policy or service framework, which, in itself, mitigates against full rights, choice and participation. There is therefore a great need to identify a common language for the experience of oppression and empowerment which all deaf people can share without sacrificing their rights to self-definition.

Author : Susan Burch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deaf and Disability Studies written by Susan Burch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity and their intersection with general disabilities activism, alliances, boundaries, and overlaps.

Author : Jan Branson
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563681189
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damned for Their Difference written by Jan Branson and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a sociological history of how deaf people came to be classified as disabled, from the 17th century through the 1990s.

Author : Jaipreet Virdi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669075X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearing Happiness written by Jaipreet Virdi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to “pass” as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments, and technologies led to dead ends. Never quite deaf enough for the Deaf community or quite hearing enough for the “normal” majority, Virdi was stuck in aural limbo for years. It wasn’t until her thirties, exasperated by problems with new digital hearing aids, that she began to actively assert her deafness and reexamine society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. Through lyrical history and personal memoir, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Taking us from the 1860s up to the present, Virdi combs archives and museums to understand the long history of curious cures: ear trumpets, violet ray apparatuses, vibrating massagers, electrotherapy machines, airplane diving, bloodletting, skull hammering, and many more. Hundreds of procedures and products have promised grand miracles but always failed to deliver a universal cure—a harmful legacy that is still present in contemporary biomedicine. Blending Virdi’s own experiences together with her exploration into the fascinating history of deafness cures, Hearing Happiness is a powerful story that America needs to hear. Praise for Hearing Happiness “In part a critical memoir of her own life, this archival tour de force centers on d/Deafness, and, specifically, the obsessive search for a “cure”. . . . This survey of cure and its politics, framed by disability studies, allows readers—either for the first time or as a stunning example in the field—to think about how notions of remediation are leveraged against the most vulnerable.” —Public Books “Engaging. . . . A sweeping chronology of human deafness fortified with the author’s personal struggles and triumphs.” —Kirkus Reviews “Part memoir, part historical monograph, Virdi’s Hearing Happiness breaks the mold for academic press publications.” —Publishers Weekly “In her insightful book, Virdi probes how society perceives deafness and challenges the idea that a disability is a deficit. . . . [She] powerfully demonstrates how cures for deafness pressure individuals to change, to “be better.” —Washington Post

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309092965
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearing Loss written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss. This volume is the product of that study. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits reviews current knowledge about hearing loss and its measurement and treatment, and provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes and criteria. It recommends changes to strengthen the disability determination process and ensure its reliability and fairness. The book addresses criteria for selection of pure tone and speech tests, guidelines for test administration, testing of hearing in noise, special issues related to testing children, and the difficulty of predicting work capacity from clinical hearing test results. It should be useful to audiologists, otolaryngologists, disability advocates, and others who are concerned with people who have hearing loss.

Author : John Vickrey Van Cleve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781563685767
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetics, Disability, and Deafness written by John Vickrey Van Cleve and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reprint based on scholarship presented at a 2003 conference held at Gallaudet University, this title includes thirteen essays that explores the complex sociological interplay between genetics and deafness, as viewed by a distinguished panel of scholars and scientists from the platforms of their respective disciplines.

Author : Wendy McCracken
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deaf-ability--not Disability written by Wendy McCracken and published by Multilingual Matters Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by a severely deaf mother of a profoundly deaf son and a teacher of the deaf/educational audiologist. It offers practical information to parents of hearing impaired children. It includes insights into the meaning of deafness to families and individuals and underlines the ability, potential and individualism of each child.

Author : Jan Branson
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563681219
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damned for Their Difference written by Jan Branson and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a sociological history of how deaf people came to be classified as disabled, from the 17th century through the 1990s.