Would you call a deaf person disabled, handy-capped, or unormal?!


Question:
Dude, i think that a deaf person is compleatly normal. They just cant hear or speak.
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Deafness is a disabiliy. The loss of any of the primary senses is a disabiliy. Special consideration need to be taken to make life easier for some people.
Another thing, just because you can't hear doesn't always mean you can't speak.

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I wouldn't call them anything cause they cant here me. I would just flip my head like doing a whats' up.

I'd call them deaf. Not that it matters, though. It's not like they can hear me.

I don't consider that a disability, and really what is normal. NO ONE is perfectly normal. I think all of those terms for someone who is deaf are high inappropriate.

hearing impaired

yes deaf people are normal,but their hearing is disabled. There are many types of disabilities but it doesn't always mean the person isn't normal.

never unormal they are disabled, handycapped,or hearing chalenged. they are whatever they prefer to be called

none of the above, they are just like you and me apart from the fact they cant hear all the s>@* going on around them, the deaf person is a smart one, they can lip read so watch what you say and they can use sign language, i wish i was able to have just one of those skills

Depends on who/what your talking about. If a deaf person is trying to get insurance, the company would call them disable because they have a handycap against them.

Now a deaf person who has no problem with their hearing empairment will consider themself normal. It just depends on how they look at their life.
Some are happy not to hear the sound of a fatal car crash, people fighting over "who cares what?"
The sound of gun shots, police cars, ambulances, politians spewing their crap, peoples constant complaining. That's when I wish a little deafness would rub off on to me! Then be able to turn up the volume to hear a childs laughter, birds cherping, a cat's purr, someone saying the words, "I Love You" or "You've Won Ed McManon Million Dollar Lottery"!
I was a tutor for sign language in college. I taught a blind person how to sign to her deaf friends. She, nor them considered themselves disabled nor did I.
Good luck to getting the answer to your question! SmileyCat

You would not call a Deaf person disabled, handicapped, un normal, and you certainly would NOT call them hearing impaired (that term is highly disrespectful to Deaf people). All of those terms look at deafness through a medical point of view. All of those terms ignore the cultural aspect of Deafness.

There is a whole Deaf culture out there, with its own language, customs, beliefs, values. Deaf people prefer to be called Deaf or Hard of Hearing.

Now if someone is deaf (notice the lower case) it means that they lack hearing but are not really involved in the Deaf community (generally these are late-deafened adults who still associate more with the hearing world than the Deaf world). Sometimes deaf people don't mind the term hearing impaired.

You should use the term that the person uses to refer to themselves. If they refer to themselves as Deaf, then you call them Deaf, if someone refers to themselves as hearing impaired, then you can use that (though I wouldn't go tossing that term around lightly)

They are none of those. The deaf are part of an intricately unique community that are just a different culture within society. If you look at it from the deaf persons point of view, they think that hearing people are disabled, because they have to live in a world full of noise and chaos

None, just deaf, and to the person that said hearing impaired.deaf people don't like being called hearing impaired. People that have hearing loss are hearing impaired and people that can't hear are deaf.it is in no way derogatory to call someone deaf. That is what they call themselves.
Source(s):
Studying deaf culture

I would call them deaf.

And some can speak, especially if they had hearing before.

I personally dont look at them.

I would simply call the deaf "deaf". Everyone knows what it means.

nothin, cause they can't hear me!

you can call them what you like its not as if they can hear you.

you can tell them anything..besides they won't hear a thing..

i mean it's nobodys' fault that he or she is deaf..

Deaf is fine. I wouldn't however call them abnormal. Learn sign language!
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