The best person who would have been able to explain that was Tanis Doe,
unfortunately she passed away. But reading her work of social construction
would help.
I can try from an insider perspective. For me, in at a personal level
"hard of hearing" allure to purposefully not hearing, my fault, my
unwillingness. This was the way of treating hearing impaired children in
the 1950's in institution. It has the similar connotation as "invalid"
"cripple" etc., Those of my generation have personal experience with the
negative effect of this "language of superiority". In the end its rooted
in the notion of power vs. powerless,
For deaf, deafened I think If you read some of Leonard Davis or M.Corker
Deaf Disabled or Deafness Disabled ? 1998.
Wonder if this makes any sense to the "others"
Maria
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> Dear list members
>
> I would be thankful if someone would please educate me as to why the words
> 'hard of hearing' and deafened are insulting, and what are people's
> different understandings of the words and how they are used day to day.
This
> is a sincere request.
>
> In Canada (and the UK), my day to day experience has made me think that
(as
> I wrote to Maria,)" I don't think this is "in lingo" language necessarily;
> they've been used for years and years, (and I may be out of the loop with
> current usage). People who are "hard of hearing" mean they find it hard to
> hear, or difficult to hear. Usually some loss of hearing is implicit, that
> is compared to before i.e. when one's hearing was better. My grandpa
> described himself as 'hard of hearing' for years and many others do too.
> I'm not so sure about deafened, it means "made deaf" presumably by some
> outside force, for example my uncle who was a gunner's boy during WW2 was
> deafened by the noise (the percussive effect of the guns) but he always
> described himself as deaf and/or hard of hearing. I have heard deafened
used
> in the context of 'Deaf and deafened' i.e. the second word would be used
by
> people who would not identify with Deaf. I would be interested to hear
what
> others have to say about this, too."
>
> Thanks for your thoughtful responses.
>
> Best wishes
> Vivien Runnels
> Ottawa, Canada
>
>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:49 PM
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>
> Maria,
>
> The phrases "deafened" and "hard of hearing" are certainly used in the UK
> by both 'profs." by hearing people. Both terms are insulting. However I
> would certainly FEEL SAFER to go to Canada than to the terrorist state of
> the USA.
>
> Keith
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:23:49 -0500 , Maria Barile <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> >Can colleagues from English Canada Inform, me of the following tell
is
> it true that in English Canada people are really using the terms
"deafened"
> and "hard of hearing". I find these insulting but I'm told that there are
> the "in lingo."
> >
> >What do these mean? Is it rehab language or consumer lingo?
> >Maria
>
>
> War makes people ill.
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