To be an audist, the ability to hear is not the main factor because many deaf people can be audists as well. They repress each other and may not even realize that. Audists continue to judge a deaf person’s intelligence and success due to their ability of language. The ability or inability to hear does not have anything to do with superiority among humans. The main point in life where the deaf community encounters discrimination is during an interview or applying for a job.
Many people belong to more than one group and cannot be consolidated in to an easy one-size-fits-all counseling model. One must not deny, however, that some universalities do exist. One danger of lumping minorities on to easily defined groups is a matter of self-fulfilling prophesy. People tend to act out what is expected of them, thus reinforcing the stereotypes. Knowledge of ethnic differences alone does not help counselors be more effective.
The majority does not believe that deafness is a positive thing; most people hold the belief that deafness is a negative thing. “Disabled people used to announce, “I am not my disability.” They demanded that society look beyond the withered arm, a clubbed-foot, or a wheel chair and see the human being, a human who was essentially identical to everyone else. Now, for some the announcement has become, “I am my deafness. That is what is special about me.” This is another appeal to tradition, she states that the disabled “used” to announce they are not their disability. Whereas now they say that is what is special about them.
Doctors thought in order to “cure” someone from being deaf that they should go to an oral school. It was very sad to see how ones family would not want to learn to be able to communicate with their child. I don’t believe that using your hands to communicate makes you any less of a person; I think people just don’t understand those who are different. Punishment. In some cultures the deaf are seen to have a bad past from the past life.
The reason might be using complicated words that people have never heard. - Some of the people might not understand the presentation, because I was not using different ways of speaking. In presentation there might be some communication problems. For example if I have something that I want talk about in my slide, but I forget what I want to say, my presentation will be not good and the audience
At home among strangers. Washington). Although the hearing community was against the thought that is was, in fact, a language. What makes it difficult for the hearing community to begin thinking of signing as a language, because it is not spoken and is difficult to put in written form because it is a complex visual language? The primary depth of Deaf culture is based on the language which give us other aspects of culture.
A psychologist must not be judgemental and must listen to everything the patient has to say. Another way to overcome communication barriers would be hearing aids; hearing aids are used to help deaf people to be able to hear what is being said around them or to them. Hearing aids make deaf people feel as if they are just the same as anyone else and can listen and communicate if they are being spoken to. Hearing aids may not work sometimes if they are being used in a really noisy environment. Another way to overcome communication barriers would be Loop systems, loop systems are used with hearing systems they help them to hear as if they weren’t deaf and it sounds a lot clearer.
You see the struggles, conflicts, and prejudice in personal experience of individuals and how they grow in a strong community. I strongly enjoyed the particular attention to the controversy over the hiring of a hearing person, as president of Galludet University, and the Deaf President Now movement- how as a community these people were “heard”. While
Without our voice the world would be nothing. Voices let us stand up for what we believe in and let us share our thoughts to someone who might think differently than us. Many people feel that their voice isn't as important as others, when people don't listen to what others have to say it puts people down, and makes them not want to express themself with their voice. You might say, "well isn't Barrack Obama's voice is more important than mine?" And, thats not true.
If we judge and label someone by appearance, we probably can’t learn special characteristics about someone because we don’t know about their belief and personality in appearance. Some people just hide their emotion and seldom express themselves by a verbal communication. Therefore, the “Squiggling game” is a good form of communication to allow us to know someone without judgment more. 250 words Additional material: Gordon Allport Prejudice jeopardizes to learn special characteristics about someone. As a result, we should find different ways to reduce prejudice.