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The big issue with journals focusing on deafness, especially educating and cultural issues with deaf populations is that the writers of the articles and the editors are hearing. Being hearing allows for othering of deaf people. Deaf people become not real - incorporeal
The act of othering means that deaf people are seen as creatures rather than humans, and that any context for why they are the way they are can be forgotten. Any action, thought, or response is because of deafness. If the communication mode isn't spoken, then signing is to blame
Consider Social Maturity and Executive Function among Deaf Learners by Marschark et al. (2017). They report that LOL signing deaf people are like, so immature and stuff and have thinking problems. Because signing.
Or in Achievement, Language, and Technology Use Among College-Bound Deaf Learners by Crowe et al.. Using sign language means poorer achievement in many different classes. Also classifiers/depiction aren't really a part of signed languages LOL
The Crowe article is often cited as examples of why classifiers and depiction aren't really a part of signed languages. I'm still trying to get in touch with some of the authors of these articles to understand what's going on. ( @j_trussell - email me!)
In Speech Intelligibility and Personality Peer ratings of young deaf adults with cochlear implants by Freeman, implanted deaf adults have like, deaf voices and their peers hate them. So we need to train the deaf people to not sound so deaf and stuff.
Decision-Making in Adolescents with Profound hearing Loss by Xuan et al. Deaf teenagers, like, can't make good decisions unlike hearing people. They're only interested in immediate satisfaction and are horrible with risks. Poor deaf people.
In Emotional functioning, positive relationships, and language use in deaf adults, Penacoba et al. found that deaf people in general were more so lonely (alexithymia) than hearing people, but signing deaf people were the loneliest of all with no positive relationships at all. Poo
The thing is, these aren't recent articles. They're all from 2017 on, so within the past three years. They're all peer reviewed. Many are slamming signed language use - IN THE JOURNAL OF DEAF EDUCATION AND DEAF STUDIES. And all somehow show that being deaf is a vile thing.
We can't make friends. We have poor emotional regulation. We have poor executive functioning skills. We can't plan well. We don't make good relationships. In the lens of these articles, this could all be solved by us being hearing. Or at least as close to hearing as possible
All of this puts us, deaf people, especially signing deaf people, in a Kafka trap. If we get angry about it, we're just proving their points about how being deaf is awful. If we ignore it, we allow their points to stand without debate.
The reason that all of this comes to print and goes through peer review is because HEARING PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE DEAF PEOPLE ARE HUMAN.
If you see the stuff that makes it to print is bad, you should see what I review and make cut or edited!
If you see the stuff that makes it to print is bad, you should see what I review and make cut or edited!
