Attitudes toward Deaf People on Providence Island: A Preliminary Survey
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by Project MUSE in Sign Language Studies
- Vol. 18 (1) , 49-68
- https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.1978.0017
Abstract
Most societies view deaf people as inferior to hearing people (Woodward 1975) and often actively discriminate against deaf individuals and groups (Padden & Markowicz 1976, Markowicz & Woodward 1975). Surprisingly the three thousand hearing people on Providence Island come closer to an equal acceptance and treatment of deaf people than do those in the other societies that have been studied. Interviews in two villages reveal that the hearing do not hold the deaf to be inferior in the areas of marriage, mental ability, occupations, and social integration.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: