Hi,
From the Canadian Hearing Society:
deaf: This term is generally used to describe individuals with a severe to profound hearing loss, with little or no residual hearing. Some deaf people use sign language, such as American Sign Language (ASL) or Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ) to communicate. Others use speech to communicate using their residual hearing and hearing aids, technical devices or cochlear implants, and/or speechreading.
culturally Deaf: This term refers to individuals who identify with and participate in the language, culture and community of Deaf people, based on sign language. Deaf culture does not perceive hearing loss and deafness from a pathological point of view, but rather from a socio-cultural point of view, indicated by a capital D as in “Deaf culture”. Culturally Deaf people may also use speech, residual hearing, hearing aids, speechreading and gesturing to communicate with people who do not sign.
deafened or late-deafened: These terms describe individuals who grow up hearing or hard of hearing and, either suddenly or gradually, experience a profound loss of hearing. Late-deafened adults usually cannot understand speech without visual clues such as captioning/computerized notetaking, speechreading or sign language.
hard of hearing: This term is generally used to describe individuals who use spoken language (their residual hearing and speech) to communicate. Most hard of hearing people can understand some speech sounds with or without hearing aids and often supplement their residual hearing with speechreading, hearing aids and technical devices. The term “person with hearing loss” is increasingly used and preferred.
cheers,
shane
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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
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