Diversity In The Deaf Community

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Throughout the deaf community, there is diversity. It doesn’t matter if you can hear or not everywhere a person goes diversity will show. Deaf people know how to understand and deal with diversity better verbal people do. Children who have hearing parents or raised in a hearing household are more likely to adopt the view of deafness as a disability rather than a culturally hearing identity (Yael). Parents tried to speak with their deaf child rather than trying to learn how to communicate with them. Which is why they are more likely to view it as a disability. The parents never put forth effort into trying to understand their children. Depending on the degree a deaf child exposed will also depend on how they would look at deafness as they grow