Strengthening Deaf Education, Empowerment & Employment

DEAF-E3

The Power of Language

Amanda Mueller
 List what each think the word means:

INCLUSION
INCLUSION

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Deaf
Hard-of-hearing +
DeafBlind

Deaf Community
General Society
Signing Classroom
 Culturally Rich Realities - Dr. Dennis Cokely

Image:
http://www.interpretereducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Interpreting-
Culturally-Rich.pdf

Culturally Rich Realities Research Article:

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.interpretereducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Interpreting-Culturally-Rich.
pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1691842701999135&usg=AOvVaw22QMhIwkdlnxToJXFH0Jfj
How do we “bridge the gap” in understanding?
1. Know your “audience”

a. Explain your meaning

b. Use terms that clarify the difference
c. ALL PWD deserve equity AND other PWD share spoken
language - D/HH/DB = linguistic/language difference.
 How do we “bridge the gap” in understanding?

2. Data and Research

● Example: World Health Association (WHO)

● World Health Association - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/deafness-and-hearing-loss

● 5% of the global population is deaf, hard of hearing,

deafblind
● Nigeria - Approximately 225 MILLION

󰑋 5% of 225M = 11,250,000 = Population of Tunisia 󰑋

 How do we “bridge the gap” in understanding?
3. Use existing policies, laws, and advocacy work
4. Use the Vision and Mission statements of the
organizations
5. Use the statements made by your audience
a. Mr. Tukur’s example: “Leave no one behind, no one
untouched.”
6. Choose your words carefully - power in language
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 Resources
➢ Sign Language Research MythBusters
LINK: https://www.petitto.net/mythbusters

➢ Position Paper on Access to National Sign Languages as a Health Need

LINK: https://wfdeaf.org/news/position-paper-on-access-to-national-sign-languages-as-a-health-need/

➢ The World Federation of the Deaf Position Paper on who should teach
signed languages

LINK:https://wfdeafnew.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Position-Paper-on-the-the-pri
macy-of-deaf-people-in-the-development-and-teaching-of-national-sign-languages.pdf
 Resources
Center of Deaf Health Equity: https://gallaudet.edu/deafhealth/

Position Paper on Access to National Sign Languages as a Health Need -

hhttps://wfdeaf.org/news/resources/position-statement-on-access-to-sign-languages-as-a-health-need/?fbclid=IwAR1Y65tKaceRgvtqB65
EAtPaSNIOeCOGqm2EJKzyUAdpAGyoA4U8DeCwVY0

Adverse Childhood Communication Experiences Associated With an

Increased Risk of Chronic Diseases in Adults Who Are Deaf
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32636047/

Language Deprivation Syndrome:

https://cssh.northeastern.edu/.../language-deprivation.../
https://www.adara.org/.../adara._2018._preconference.pdf
 Resources
➢ International Sign (IS) is not a language.
○ IS is an invented system of signing to allow ‘cross-language communication’ or ‘a translanguaging
practice’
LINK: https://deafunity.org/article_interview/international-sign-language/

➢ GU Center Deaf Health Equity

LINK: https://deafhealthequity.com/

➢ Deaf Studies Digital Journal

LINK: https://gallaudet.edu/deaf-studies/deaf-studies-digital-journal/

➢ Bridging Silence: Illusions of Accessibility for the Deaf

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYwMpLmIbDE&themeRefresh=1
 Brain and Cognitive Research on Language
Development

➢ https://www.petitto.net

➢ https://www.visvoc.bradleywhite.net

➢ https://www.visvoc.bradleywhite.net/assets/files/white16-tipsforfacilitatingvocabularydevelopment.pdf

➢ https://www.visvoc.bradleywhite.net/assets/files/white16-languagedevelopmenttimeline.pdf

➢ https://www.visvoc.bradleywhite.net/assets/files/white16-languagedevelopmenttimeline.pdf

➢ Language Development Milestones: https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ss/dh/sb210langmilestones.asp