The deaf child as a linguistic minority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4254576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Veda R Charrow (University of Maryland, College Park), Ronnie B Wilbur, Ronnie Β Wilbur (0000-0001-7081-9351, Boston University) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 353-359 |
| Publication date | 1975-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00405847509542599 |
| OpenAlex | W1981893103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 10 |
But there is another way of viewing deaf children: as a linguistic minority, like MexicanAmericans, or Chinese-Americans, or other nonnative English speakers. Prelingually deaf children, after all, are really aware of this handicap, since they do know what is. It is only when they were required to look, perform, behave and achieve like hearing children that they begin to see themselves as not normal-as opposed to merely deaf. For all intents and purposes, however, a deaf child with no other handicaps is normal, and very comparable in many ways to a minority child whose native language is English. The catch is that the deaf child's normal modality for language is auditory and oral, but visual and manual
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2022 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |