In The Deaf World

In the Deaf world, the people who are Deaf, deaf, hard-of-hearing, and orals have many defined of each term to identify what they are. They once thought that they are part of the Deaf Culture in which they would think that where they belong. But, according to James Woodward (1972), uses the lowercase deaf when it referring to the audiological condition of not hearing, and the uppercase Deaf when referring to a particular group of deaf people who share a language of American Sign Language and a culture. In contrast, hard-of-hearing people raised in ASL would be accepted as Deaf, while non-signing oral deaf people would not (Bragg, 2001, P.326). The deaf community has it owns value, culture, and language of deaf people who share certain characteristics and their own identity as a group.
The term Deaf may just seem it applies to anyone who has hearing loss, but Deaf people do have their own define of identity as a group in the Deaf World. If a person is Deaf, it could be just because they are using American Sign
Within the Deaf culture these words refer to a person’s audiological status. Notice lower case “d” is used. People who describe themselves as “hard of hearing” or “deafened” do not see themselves as members of the Deaf culture. Some may know sign language but their primary language is English. Hard-of-hearing can be defined a person with a mild-to-moderate hearing loss. It can also means a person who doesn’t have or any kind of experience of cultural with Deaf community. It also refers to someone who doesn’t hear well and maybe because they born with a hearing loss or they may have lost some or all of hearing in the future. Hard of hearing people can be associates of the Deaf community, they can either choose to join or not being involved at