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Deaf Culture:
Background

• Deaf People
• Background
• Clinical & Pathological View
• Social and Cultural View
• Deaf Community
• Socialization in the Deaf Community

Historically, Sign Language as the main element that binds Deaf people together was suppressed and not accepted in a deaf person's life, i.e. at home, school and society in general.

Deaf people were seen as deviants from general society and therefore in need of rehabilitation.

This gave rise to a view of deafness called the clinical or pathological view.

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