Deaf-­‐gain: How Deaf people change humanity Joseph J. Murray PhD Forskningskonferens “Is the Deaf Mind Different from the Hearing Mind?” 31 May 2012 Stockholm, Sweden l’homme moyen Cradle to Grave: Norming is Normal Hearing Loss Deaf-­‐gain What Is Deaf-Gain?
The reframing of
deafness as a form of
sensory and cognitive
diversity that offers
vital contributions to
the collective good.
Deaf Benefit Deaf Contribute Deaf Lead Deaf Contribute Gestures and sign languages in human communicaQon hRp://sunsite.utk.edu/pisl/ hRp://www.ling.gu.se/~biljana/gestures2.html Deaf Contribute: Signing communiQes •  Martha’s Vineyard, USA •  Desa Kolok, Bali, Indonesia. •  Yucatec Maya Sign Language, Mexico. •  Adamorobe,Ghana •  Al Sayed Sign Language, Israel. •  2% threshold? Redefining language: to sign is human From language as spoken to language as innate and expressed in different modaliQes. From naQonal sign languages to sign languages as naturally-­‐
occuring human languages Visual learning 2 + 2 = 4 2 + 2 = 4 2 + 2 = 4 Deaf Contribute: Visual learning 2 + 2 = 4 2 + 2 = 4 2 + 2 = 4 20% 80% 80% Deaf Contribute: Deaf Space Deaf Contribute: Deaf Space Deaf Benefit Deaf Benefit: Different visual processing Deaf Benefit: TransnaQonalism Deaf Benefit: CollecQvism Ada Olvera “My Two Worlds” Csalifornia School for the Deaf Fremont 2012 Redefining physical difference “I like the way I think” Access = Gain? Seeing Gain in pracQce Spesialisterne (DK) First company set up to employ people with auQsm spectrum disorders. Now in three countries. 10 million DKK annually. Unicus (NO) First year’s profit of 463.000 kroner on operaQons of 2,6 million NOK. Scotland and Iceland have similar companies. Digital, Statens kartverk og Hafslund. Deaf Lead Deaf Lead: Deaf Gain Economy DEAF economic gain? Being Deaf as a compeQQve advantage. –  Knowledge of how to navigate different cultures and linguisQc environments (ScoR Atkins) –  Dimitri Kanevsky, IBM, $55,000,000,000 USD annually. Deaf Lead: Deaf Gain Economy Deaf Gain Video Games Deaf Lead: Deaf Gain Economy Deaf Gain Gestural Interface Deaf Lead: Deaf EducaQon Deaf Lead: Deaf EducaQon Deaf Lead: Deaf Gain EducaQon Deaf Lead: Visual Manual EducaQon + = : From deaf educaQon to Deaf-­‐gain EducaQon Global e ducaQon + = Why does the world need deaf people? + Deaf = Human Gain Acknowledgements H-­‐Dirksen Bauman, co-­‐author of –  “Reframing: Hearing Loss to Deaf-­‐Gain” Deaf Studies Digital Journal. Issue #1 Fall 2009. –  “Deaf Studies in the 21st Century: Deaf-­‐Gain and the Future of Human Diversity.” Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies and Deaf Educa9on. Eds. Marc Marschark and Patricia Spencer. 2010. •  Contributors to The New Normal: Deaf Gain and the Future of Human Diversity Image References • 
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