﻿[Jenna] Hello I’m Jenna
and this is ASL Stew. (hand slap)
(music)
Okay so today we’re going to be discussing the Deaf and disabled communities
and how there’s similarities or differences.
So that’s what we’re gonna discuss today.
Historically the culturally Deaf community do not feel they have a disability.
There’s just a linguistic difference.
Other than that, they can communicate, they can do everything.
The only barrier they have is not hearing, but there’s ways to get around that.
So they feel they’re not disabled.
There are some things though overlapping
between the disabled community and the Deaf community.
The only reason there’s a label of being disabled is because
they don’t match with what the majority culture is
and that’s a similarity that the Deaf community has with the disabled community.
If society were more willing to be accessible.
Whether if that’s with the Deaf community having more visual accommodations
like visual fire alarms then there’s no problem.
But if they’re neglected then there is.
For example in the disabled community, if someone’s in a wheelchair
then they can have a ramp and then there’s no issue.
So those are the type of things that I’m talking about.
Or for example there is Braille for someone who is blind
and with that they are able to communicate.
They can read through a tactile method and that’s fine.
If it’s not everywhere then there is a barrier for them and then breakdowns are going to happen.
I think one thing that I want to emphasize that is important
is working together and fighting for legal rights for accessibility.
Whether that’s in the Deaf community where they need interpreters
in sign language in schools or at their doctor’s appointment or those type of situations.
They need that accommodation, or again they might need that visual access.
Or even tactile accommodations for DeafBlind. So they need tactile services.
So they need to fight for that, which is the same in the disabled community.
They have different legal, equality, accessibility rights that they need
like ramps for wheelchairs, or elevators. As well as other things.
I think that it’s really important that we understand
that there are two different communities or cultures,
but they can both work together to get those legal rights.
By working together, they’re going to learn from each other
what each group has experienced when regards to discrimination.
Then they can understand that and most society, they just make assumptions.
They assumed that people within these communities are lesser, but we are humans.
We are people and we are able to contribute so much to society!
All in different ways. We can do that and it’s so important to understand that point.
I can give you one way in which we can be allies with each other. We can work together.
Soon there is going to be a conference between Deaf and disabled.
So we’re going to be hosting a conference
and they’re going to have a multitude of different presenters.
They’re gonna have different shows and understand,
even though it's different communities, we all want to work together.
So we’re setting up a conference just local people can come to it.
There, they can learn though the presentations.
Talk about different topics that are relating to all our different communities.
We’re gonna have some really cool acts like dancing, poems or poetry,
and different expressions of the different communities.
So that’s one example of how the different communities can work together
to educate the masses about the said communities
and what they’re able to learn from us.
So that’s an important way which is working together.
Another overlap that we have is Deaf people who have additional disabilities.
There are Deaf people with disabilities.
So you have to think about those people within the groups.
Cause they’re actually within both communities.
So we can learn from those people and say “what are your needs?”
“What frustrations are you feeling? Where are your barriers and how can we resolve those?”
So that’s gonna apply to both communities.
So it’s important that we learn from people’s different experiences.
So hopefully you have learned something from this video through the different examples.
Now, understand this is just my experience.
But I strongly recommend that you get in contact with different people
who are Deaf, disabled, Deaf+.
Talk to them and find out what they’re experiences are.
Watch their videos or read their stories. Whatever way you can.
There’s so many different people out there and so many stories out there
that you can learn from and learn about what they’re needs are
and how we can improve our society and have better accommodations
and have a better life for everybody.
So check out what you can!
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[Jill] …you never know. You could have a good month. You could have a bad month.
Another pro, which I kind of recently mentioned as a con…
[Jenna] Another thing that I think is really important is working together, being allies.
You know, there’s a lot of different minority groups like the Deaf community…