Deaf cultures communicate with hands, body, arms and facial expression and as you know it’s called sign language. Hearing cultures use language to communicate with one another by using spoken English words with listening.
Deaf: we have learned to communicate in sign language and use our communication skills, morals, behaviors, values, language and attitudes which originate from the culture we live in.
skills: hands, arms, body, facial expression, visual art.
morals: collective culture, variations of morals.
behaviors: various, poor to rich, elite.
values: high, poor to rich, elite.
attitudes: social responsibility, social justice, collective, community accountability, poor to rich, elite.
language: syntax and grammatical structure
the most common misconceptions of ASL: People think it is an universal language. Clarification: it is not a universal language, ASL stands for American Sign Language, other countries have their own.
signs in English word order and auditory language is not ASL.
skills: voice, tone inflection, intonation
morals: individual culture, various of morals.
behaviors: various, poor to rich, elite.
values: low to high – various on your background, poor to rich, elite.
attitudes: norms, background, individual, poor to rich, elite.
language: dialects, accents, grammatical structure
