DEMOS Project - Deaf People's Access to Nurse Education Project

Resources : Deaf People's Access to Nurse Education

The Deaf Community

It is important to note at this point that the project philosophy aspires to the belief that views the Deaf Community as a linguistic minority group rather than the alternative of viewing this community through the medical label of deafness as a deficit.

This former identity allows more room for valuing the skills, behaviours, beliefs, identities and missions of people whose first or preferred language is British Sign Language (BSL). As Padden (1991) suggests the British Deaf Community can be viewed through the interconnected domains of Audiological, Social, Political and Linguistic components.

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