![]() Deaf people, in the sense of a community or culture, can then be seen as a linguistic minority, and therefore some who are a part of this community may feel misunderstood by those who don't know sign language. Many members take pride in their Deaf identity. Members of the Deaf community tend to view deafness as a difference in human experience rather than a disability or disease. Croneberg coined the term "Deaf Culture" and he was the first to discuss analogies between Deaf and hearing cultures in his appendices C/D of the 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language. When used as a label for the audiological condition, it is written with a lower case d. ![]() When used as a cultural label especially within the culture, the word deaf is often written with a capital D and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. An introduction to Deaf culture in American Sign Language with English subtitles availableĭeaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. ![]()
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