Into Silence: Retrieving Justice for the Deaf with Respect
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Weng, Pei-Yong
Abstract
The report explores how socio-economic status greatly influences the Deaf children. Honestly, growing up in the mainstream culture of hearing people was a tough journey for them. The problems are twofold: different family backgrounds and different social resources.
Socio-economic status and educational backgrounds of parents play key roles in the Deaf children’s future. Unsurprisingly, those born in a high-class family tend to have more opportunities to undergo early interventions in preschool age, which promote and enhance their abilities to communicate with others either in sign-language or oral-language.
The increasing rural-urban divide and decreasing social resources in rural area also signal certain defects of our education. Education, an institution formerly to minimize the gap between those who undergo proper early intervention and those who did not, has turned into a filter: keeping “good” students with good oral speaking ability while scrap others.
The report implies an important issue: Deaf people, minority in the mainstream culture of hearing people, suffer in educational system and daily lives. All the suffering stems from hearing people’s pride and prejudice, however, eyes are their windows to the world. Showing respect and accepting their visual experience will lead Taiwan to a genuine barrier-free environment.
Subjects
聾人
啟聰教育
城鄉差距
貧富差距
語言弱勢
Type
thesis
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