Barriers In The Deaf Community Analysis

The deaf community faces tribulations of a grand scale on a daily basis. In fact, many deaf people can't get a job simply because they are have different needs the employer doesn't want to accommodate for(Human rights). Deaf and hard of hearing people fight for workplace equality, accessibility, understanding, and the simple right to basic communication. Often when culture is challenged, the oppressed rise as part of a cultural struggle and fight for respect and a place in the world they belong. "This is the case for many deaf people the world over, as many of these basic values have been denied to them due to the dominance of the hearing societies in which they live." (Holcomb). Dealing with oppression and ignorance of hearing people,

(WFD) Without sign language deaf people are left helpless in a fast paced world. Interpreting is translating the meaning of spoken English into a complex network of signs that resemble the words and sentence structure used in the English language.(Legal Rights) Sign language is essential for the deaf. Without it, many would not understand what the world around them was doing. In the Alabama Court of Appeals in Terry v. state the following quote was noted, "In the absence of an interpreter, it would be a physical impossibility for the accused, a deaf (defendant) to know or understand the nature and cause of the accusation against him and... He could only stand by helplessly... Without knowing or understand[ing], and all this in the teeth of the mandatory constitutional rights which apply. More confrontation would be useless."(Legal Rights) Interpreting is used by most of the nearly 70 million deaf people in the world.(WFD) in the quote, they state that without