Deaf People Research Paper

Introduction

With the rising of personal rights, there has been a growing discussion about special education, especially in the sphere of deaf education. For hundreds of years, people treat deafness as a kind of disease and disability. As a result, deaf people with a low self-identity are arranged in a vocational education system and are not heard by the mainstream society. However, there should and must be a different kind of view to give deaf people the right status in the society, to value their culture and to give them a better education. There should be a transformation of views to treat deaf people differently instead of regarding them as burden and deficiency. The change of view could somehow change deaf people’s situation. Nowadays, the deaf people as a minority group in a hearing
This view treats deaf people as a different culture group and insists that a deaf person should be the one who can express his or her needs and gives more importance to the ability of reading and writing instead of speaking. So Sign Language as a kind of language is important to learn and on the basis of Sign Language, the deaf can and should form deaf community and share the deaf culture.The cultural view give people the signal that deaf people can work well in a hearing world and switch from one culture to another based on their own needs. The difference of these two perspectives is that the former sees what the deaf do not have and the latter focuses on what the deaf do have. We can see those two perspectives affects deaf people’s life differently. Unfortunately, the Pathological view of deafness has dominated the mainstream society for hundreds of years and the cultural perspective as a rising perspective largely discussed in the 1980s by American scholars is still strange and unaccepted to many