Deaf studies
This article is about studies of fine arts and humanities, high culture, integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior and set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an Deaf-related institution, organization or group. For teaching Deaf students, see Education for the deaf. For education of the deaf, trainings for deaf educators, see Deaf education. For auditory-related medical conditions, see hearing impairment.
Deaf Studies are academic disciplines concerned with the study of the deaf social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, social studies, and sociology. The Deaf studies comprise the scientific study of the deaf-related aspects of the world.[1]
Deaf studies includes the study of:
University-based deaf studies centers
- United States
- Masters offered
- Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
- National Center on Deafness, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California
- Bachelors offered
- Boston University, Boston, MA
- California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California
- Gallaudet University
- Lamar University, Lamar, TX (offers hybrid Deaf Education/Deaf Studies doctorates)
- Towson University, Towson, Maryland
- Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
- State Certifications
- Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas (offers Masters in Deaf Education)
- Masters offered
- Associate in Arts offered
- College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
- Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
- Associate in Arts offered
- United Kingdom
- University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire, England
- Centre for Deaf Studies, Bristol, University of Bristol, Bristol
- New Zealand
- The Netherlands
- Visual Language, Signs and Gestures, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- Hong Kong
- Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- India
- MarThoma College for the Hearing Impaired, Kerala, India (offers Degree in Deaf Education)
National and transnational Deaf studies centers
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies, De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde
Deaf studies associations
- United States
- CSUN Deaf Studies Association, Northridge, California
- United Kingdom
- The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf
Deaf-related major projects
- India
See also
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
- Deaf Bibliography for a categorised list of publications in the field since 1984
- Deafhood
- Sign Language Studies