At Home Among Strangers: Exploring the Deaf Community in the United States

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INDEX Affiliation: Deaf Mutia, 207-209; interaction with other factors, 218; prediction, 226-228; schools' influence on, 229-230; in theory, 18, 207-209. See also Theory of Deaf community development Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, 50, 89 Alienation: interaction with other factors, 217-218; prediction, 225-226; in theory, 17, 204207 . See also Theory of Deaf community development American Athletic Association of the Deaf, 79-80 American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association, 90 American Professional Society of the Deaf, 81 American Sign Languab (ASL), 27-39; centrality in L~af culture , 37-39; in Deaf community , 70n.13; linguists' views, 27, 29, 69-70n.12; paralinguistics , 35; and speech, 31-34; as true language, 69-70n.12; varieties, 29-30. See also Bilingualism American School for the Deaf, 24, 136-137 American Society for Deaf Children , 89, 119 Architecture, 59-60. See also Deaf culture Art, 51. See also Deaf culture ASL. See American Sign Language Attitudes toward disabled, 150155 . See also Alienation Bilingualism, 35-37. See also American Sign Language Captioned Films for the Deaf, 27, 46 Clerc, Laurent, 24-25, 136-137 Cochlear implants: costs of, 163, 164-165; effects on Deaf community, 231-232 Columbus Colony, 175-177, 180n.22 Community: definition of, 12-13, 21n.10 Conference of Educational Administrators Serving the Deaf,90-91 Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, 90-91 Council of Organizations Serving the Deaf, 96-97 Deaf children: costs of rearing, 162-165, 179n.5; of deaf parents , 122-124, 133n.27; economic status of families of, 160-162; effect on marriage, 115-116; of hearing parents, 107-119, 132n.14, 133n.27, 134n.32; of hearing and deaf parents, 119-120; sibling relations , 115; viewpoints of, 116118 Deaf community: and age at onset of deafness, 6, 65, 129; criteria for existence of, 12; Deaf views of, 11; economic assessment of, 177-178; history, 23-27; in loco parentis, 130-131; membership criteria, 6, 21n.11; origin of phrase, 21n.8; in other nations, 252 AT HOME AMONG STRANGERS 214-215, 220n.25; as parents and family, 128-131; and police actions, 189-190; and religion, 52-58; as a self-help movement, 13-14, 22n.18, 74-77; singular or plural, 12-13; terminology, 14-15; values in, 64-66. See also American Sign Language; Deaf culture; Organizations; Rehabilitation; Sports; Theory of Deaf community development Deaf culture, 23, 66-67; values in, 64-66. See also American Sign Language; Architecture; Art; Deaf children; Deaf community; Humor; Literature; Religion; Sports; Theory of Deaf community development Deaf Mutia, 25, 207-208, 215 Deaf parents, 119-120, 133n.29; challenges to civil rights, 187-189; of deaf children, 122-124; divorce among, 128; economic status, 160-162; families of, 124-128, 133n.29; of normally hearing children, 124-128. See also Law Deaf President Now, 138-141, 216-218 Deafness: and adolescence, 113-114; adult expenses of, 174-175; adulthood, 114-115; advocacy organizations, 73-84, 89, 90, 93-94; age at onset of, 5-6; vs. blindness, 211-212; definition of, 4-7, 20-21n.3; degree of impairment, 4-5; diagnosis of, 107-110, 132n.11, 132n.14; and income, 168-178; marriage and divorce, 128; parent organizations, 89, 118-119; purchasing power, 171-175; state commissions on, 91-93; stereotypes, 7; three-generational impact of, 106, 132n.2. See also Demography; Employment Deafpride, 94 Demography: actual/relative size of deaf population, 7-9, 200-204, 223t, 224t; Martha's Vineyard, 203-204, 219n.l0; projections of, 222-225; in theory, 7-9, 16-17, 200-204, 216, 221-226. See also Theory of Deaf community development Economics of deafness. See Deaf children; Deafness; Employment Education: Commission report on, 148-150; curriculum and instruction, 146-148; higher, 137, 148, 149, 158n.20; history of, 136-141; postsecondary, 158n.20; predictions, 228-230; as seedbed of Deaf community, 135-136, 209-213; setting {"mainstreaming"}, 141-145,229-230; in theory, 18, 111-112, 209-213, 228-230. See also Public Law, 94-142; Theory of Deaf community development Employment: Deaf entrepreneurs, 169-170, 175-177, 180n.22; labor force, 165-167; occupations, 166-168; professionals, 170-171; underemployment, 167-168; unemployment, 167 FRAT. See National Fraternal Society of the Deaf Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action, 84 Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 26, 119120 , 137, 203-204 Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, 24, 75,136-137 Gallaudet University, 26, 137, 138...