The meaning of deaf people

Deaf people refer to people with hearing impairment caused by congenital inheritance or acquired human factors, also known as hearing impairment, or hearing impairment for short.

Deaf people who suffer from hearing impairment due to congenital genetic or acquired human factors are also called hearing-impaired people. According to the recent national census statistics, there are about 27 million people with hearing impairment in China, including hard of hearing, hard of hearing and elderly deaf people.

Hard of hearing people, defined from other angles, can be roughly divided into three definitions: relative to the deaf, they are people with residual hearing; Physiologically, people with hearing below 90 decibels are hard of hearing; Two definitions were mentioned earlier. The third definition is from the perspective of growth environment. People who go to ordinary schools are hard of hearing, which is the most widely used way to distinguish groups.

American sign language is a unique cultural feature of deaf people, and deaf schools in the United States also offer deaf culture classes. What are these cultural classes like? I don't know. In fact, smiling and waving when meeting is a cultural expression of deaf people. Deaf pantomime, dance, magic and deaf education ... all belong to the category of deaf cultural education as long as they are accompanied by sign language.

Although the deaf belong to a difficult group, it can be a useful material to repay the society by correcting them through the educational model of phonetic training. So they are a group of "materials that can be made". At present, most deaf-mute people have low educational level, limited earning skills, and difficulties in re-employment after being laid off, which hinders them from returning to society. This phenomenon is not the ignorance of deaf people.

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The achievement of oral training is the result of hard work in early Shanghai School for the Deaf. Due to lack of funds, Hong Kong donated money to a charity led by Bao Ruimei, which made a practical breakthrough in this pioneering work of mankind and created a precedent for special education in China. Therefore, the appearance of the first batch of speakers set a milestone in oral English teaching, and was eventually followed by major deaf schools.

According to the national conditions of China in the early 20th century, it is obviously unrealistic to adapt the national society to this group, so it is necessary for this group to adapt itself to society. Oral training is the only way to help deaf children go to society. In the process of improving oral English training, deaf children's tolerance to adversity is improved.