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Awareness Months

Understand better...and you can do better.

Deafness is...

...a medically-defined disability.

Basic Facts

Deafness and Hearing Loss (World Health Organization)
Hearing Loss (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

Understand More

Breaking Barriers: The intersection of hearing loss, advocacy and innovation (Central Michigan University)
Hearing Loss Simulator (from NIOSH)

Online Resources

Deafness Research Advocacy

Deep Dives

GDC: An Integrated Resource to Explore the Pathogenesis of Hearing Loss through Genetics and Genomics - 2024 (Preprint of Journal Article)
Hearing Loss, Hearing Aid Use, and Risk of Dementia in Older Adults - 2024 (Research Article)
Sensorineural hearing loss and cognitive impairment: three hypotheses - 2024 (Review Article)

...a cultural identity not focused on sound.

Basic Facts

Deaf Culture (RamSearch Research Starter)
What is Deaf Culture? (Canadian Cultural Society for the Deaf)
Deaf Culture (PDF) (A PEPNet Tipsheet)

Understand More

Understanding Deaf Culture (29 min. Video, Elijah Buchholz, LPC)
Audism Unveiled (57 min. Videodisc - Documentary)

Online Resources

The Daily Moth (App & Monetized Website)
THE HANGOUT (Youtube Channel)
National Association of the Deaf (NGO)

Deaf Culture Advocacy

Deaf Culture Timeline
The Deaf President Now (DPN) Protest (Museum Website)
Identity Politics Gone Wild: The Deaf culture wars at Gallaudet University (Conservative Magazine Article)
National Deaf History Month: Exploring the Record of Advocacy (Blog Article)

Deep Dives

A Cut Too Far? Cochlear Implants and Division among the Deaf - 2017 (Journal Article)
Deafhood: A concept stressing possibilities, not deficits - 2005 (Journal Article)
Lesbian couple create a child who is deaf like them - 2002 ('Current Controversy' Journal Article)

Link to a page outside the library website with a transcription of this infographic for people with low vision or blindness.

Source: Lago, E. F. (n.d.). Infographic: Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Deaf Culture. Unusualverse. Retrieved May 29, 2025.

Last Updated: Sep 4, 2025 11:02 AM
URL: https://library.framingham.edu/awareness-months-usa
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Subjects: 3) DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

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