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DEX found mainstreamed deaf children tend to have a “think-hearing identity”. This is where deaf people identify with their hearing communities, since this is all they know. All humans need to identify with their families, school environment and then their work and general cultural environments in order to feel that they belong. If deaf children only have one option, which is spoken language, i.e. English and Welsh only, then they will naturally identify with the hearing mainstream. This can leave deaf children with a feeling that they do not fully belong and that they do not have a whole identity, which is called self actualisation. “An identity requires another relationship for self-actualisation and one may not want the identity that has been bestowed on one” : RD Laing, 1969. We recommend “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, a book, available from Forest book shop, which explains different identities in more detail. Click here to see the publications we offer, including "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" |
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