Introduction to Deafhood: “The Museum”
The book opens with a metaphor of entering a museum about Deaf people. The metaphorical story is retold here with a brief explanation of what the metaphor refers to. (See also Ella Mae Lentz’s wonderful and far superior version).
Hearing Parent said,
August 30, 2008 @ 8:29 am
Don,
What a good analogy. Thank you for posting these vlogs on Deafhood. For hearing parents, It is a good peek into the cultural side of being Deaf and how regardless of the pathological approaches to “fixing” the person to become more “hearing-like”, Deaf culture and the pride in being Deaf continues to perservere. I can’t tell you how valuable and insightful your postings are for the hearing community as well as the Deaf community.
DrDonG said,
August 30, 2008 @ 11:27 am
H.P. –
Thank you. I hardly did that Museum story justice. I’ve seen Ella’s and other people’s versions, and they do it so beautifully. I’m happy to help reach out to the Hearing community — this is SO important for the Deaf community — to create awareness among Hearing people of how we think and why we are NOT “disabled”, and why their Deaf children are NOT a “problem”.
Trying Hard to Understand said,
September 5, 2008 @ 11:49 am
There is a video with Ella signing about The Museum at:
http://www.deafhood.us/class/?p=6
Ella’s story starts about 50 seconds into the video.