Deaf culture
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Deaf culture describes the social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are affected by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. When used as a cultural label especially within the culture, the word deaf is often written with a capital D and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. When used as a label for the audiological condition, it is written with a lower case d.
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See also
- A Man Without Words
- American Sign Language Literature
- Audism
- Canadian Deaf Theatre
- Chuck Baird
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Deaf President Now
- Deaf West Theatre
- Deafhood
- Dorothy Miles
- Models of deafness
- National Association of the Deaf
- National Theatre of the Deaf
- Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf held in Milan, Italy in 1880
- Sign name
- Total Communication
- Willy Conley
- Surdophobia
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