Positive Discrimination?

Ditto... i dislike the word of hearing impaired....
 
Miss-Delectable said:
I,too, don't like the term 'hearing impaired'. I don't mind the term HOH, but I don't see it much used in the deaf community over here.

Last Friday, we, I and mum, went in to talk to my soon to be employers about how they can help me such as work modifications etc. When the guy said 'hearing impaired', my mother interrupted and interjected that Miss-D's deaf and it's more appropriate of a term to use as she is that. :)

Apparently she doesn't like hearing her daughter being referred as hearing impaired. LOL
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Good for her! I correct people allthe time on the use of the words "hearing impaired". Usually they are trying to be politically correct and unoffensive. I just explain to them that the majority of the deaf/Deaf people I know find that term offensive and then explain why it is so offensive. The first thing I did when I started in disability services at the university was to change the files that said "hearing impaired" to deaf/hoh and the ones that said "visually impaired" to blind.
 
Miss-Delectable said:
I,too, don't like the term 'hearing impaired'. I don't mind the term HOH, but I don't see it much used in the deaf community over here.

Last Friday, we, I and mum, went in to talk to my soon to be employers about how they can help me such as work modifications etc. When the guy said 'hearing impaired', my mother interrupted and interjected that Miss-D's deaf and it's more appropriate of a term to use as she is that. :)

Apparently she doesn't like hearing her daughter being referred as hearing impaired. LOL
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I remember complaining about the phrase to a hearing person and I was signing to the hearie. The deaf man who watched this nodded in agreement with me and I had thought I was the only one who felt that way. I still feel the same about the phrase 'hearing impaired' 22 years later.
 
jillio said:
Sure. The medical definition of deafness is limited to something wrong with the hearing. Pathology means that it is abnormal, or not the same as the majority. Deaf people, whether they are deaf, Deaf, or hoh, generally don't see themselves as abnormal, or something broken and in need of being fixed, but simply as different from the majority. Pathology means abnormal, and many deaf/Deaf/hoh feel offended by that view.

Hope that helps explain. If you want, jsut keep asking questions. I'll be glad to answer anything I can.
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Jillo..it is amazing that there are still so many deaf/hoh people out there that still do not know much about Deaf culture. I used to think I was the only one who grew up without the Deaf community. It seems like there are more of us who did than those who grew up with the Deaf community. That is pretty sad, isnt it?
 
shel90 said:
Jillo..it is amazing that there are still so many deaf/hoh people out there that still do not know much about Deaf culture. I used to think I was the only one who grew up without the Deaf community. It seems like there are more of us who did than those who grew up with the Deaf community. That is pretty sad, isnt it?
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I find it very sad. I truly believe that Deaf culture and ASL is the birthright of any deaf child. Everyone has the right to know their own history. Just as a Black child adopted into a white family, or a bi-racial child has the birthright to African American History, so does the deaf child of hearing parents.

BTW....those files had been labeled by hearing couselors who had been taught that "hearing impaired" was the PC term. I find it surprising,however, as counselors, they did not bother to ask the individuals themselves how they prefered to ID.
 
shel90 said:
Same here..I hate that term and GOOD fOR YOU that u that term removed! :cheers:
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Yes, Equal Employee Opportunity and the Commander support my suggestion. YAY! Federal Government employees are more respectful to me when I emphasized to invite DeafBlind woman to give a beautiful presentation about her struggle life from age 21 to now. It was really impacted to the audience especially the military and commander. They email me to compliment me for work hard to host Disability Awareness Month last October. They were so impressed of Elaine Durcharme did excellent share her experience to the audience. It is the best ever they had within 50 years on this base.

YAY !! I DID this !!! It is included my performance award! I am glad that I did educate to the colleagues to knowledge about the Deaf and Blind. They realize that we can do anything expect visual and hear. Elaine is very courageous and brilliant woman! I have known her since high school, glad to invite her to US Army Soldier Systems Center to educational to the colleagues with the interpreters. I notice, the audience fascinated to the interpreters because they spoke toooooo fast when Elaine's sign was accelerated. :lol:
 
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