According the American Heritage Dictionary, deaf is defined as “Partially or completely lacking in the sense of hearing.” As for the capitalization of the word “Deaf” that has sparked debate for ages. The University of Illinois states that capitalization is necessary when referring to a group of people such as racial, linguistic, tribal, religious, and national. Harlan Lane was one of the first to argue on the behalf of Deaf people saying that Deaf people involved with Deaf community, indeed qualified as a culture because the Deaf Community shared distinct language, knowledge, values, and behaviours, therefore Deaf should be capitalized. In 1998, Bonnie Poitras Tucker argued that Deaf culture is not a true culture because they do not have