National Association of the Deaf

Learning Resources

Required Resources

• Course Text: Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World
• • Chapter 7, “The Context of Gender and Sexual Orientation” (pp. 125–136, up to “How to Learn What Children Know, Think, and Feel about Gender and Sexual Orientation”)
  • Chapter 8, “The Context of Abilities and Disabilities” (pp. 141–150, up to “How to Learn What Children Know, Think, and Feel about Abilities and Disabilities Orientation”)
• Article: Raising and Educating Healthy Boys: A Report on the Growing Crisis in Boys’ Education
• Web Article: Perspectives on Deaf People
  http://www.signmedia.com/info/adc.htm
• Web Article: Deaf Culture
  http://www.lexibridges.com/deaf_culture.html

Optional Resources

• Web Article: National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
  http://www.nad.org/wk4

  The Deaf Culture

   

  Throughout this course you have been considering many aspects, characteristics, and ramifications of culture and diversity You have been learning that culture and diversity can be both visible and invisible at times; yet always complex. For this Discussion, you will be keeping in mind what you have learned as you consider a culture that has to do with abilities and disabilities. In preparation, review both of the following articles:

  • Perspectives on Deaf People
    http://www.signmedia.com/info/adc.htm
  • Deaf Culture
    http://www.lexibridges.com/deaf_culture.html

  By Day 3:
  
  Post responses to the following questions:

  • What did you learn about people who are deaf in relationship to what you have been learning about culture?
  • How has this information expanded your idea of culture?
  • How has this information expanded and deepened your idea of diversity in relation to abilities and disabilities?