THE MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF DEAF CULTURE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHILD'S HEARING DEFICIENCY FAMILY
THE MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF DEAF CULTURE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHILD'S HEARING DEFICIENCY FAMILY

Summary/Abstract: The issue of the child's hearing disability in a family context cannot be approached outside the constitutive dimensions of the identity of the deaf culture, which is built in relation to the world of the hearers. All of these are challenges for the family of the hearing-impaired child. New directions of research are outlined towards the analysis of the linguistic identity assumed by both the family and the deaf child, and therefore of their way of belonging to the community. Concepts such as the deaf community, the identity and cultural diversity of this community guide us to a new approach based on the contradiction apparent between deafness as a medical condition / physical disability / social disability and deafness as a cultural identity. At this level, the family life of the child with a hearing disability takes place. This level opens new research horizons, if we refer to the local sociology of deaf culture. For these reasons, we initiated this research approach to identify and highlight the most relevant aspects of the multidimensionality of deaf culture from the perspective of the family of the child with hearing impairment.

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