GE0013@SIUCVMB.BITNET (Roy Miller) (12/01/90)
Index Number: 12065 Some time ago James Womack presented an excellent discussion of the use of the words "deafie" and "hearie" by many deaf people (in particular, members of the Deaf Culture). I am a late-deafened adult having lost all hearing at the age of 47. As such, I culturally still a hearing person, but physiologically (and more and more in terms of communications mode) I am deaf. I know that many late-deafened view themselves as "neither fish nor fowl," lost in limbo somewhere between two worlds. I would be interested in hearing more about how persons who are culturally Deaf think of persons who are late-deaf. Are we deafies or hearies or something else?
compton@ux1.lbl.gov (Stephen Compton) (12/03/90)
Index Number: 12131 Roy Miller asks how other late-deafened adults feel vis-a-vis the hearing and the deaf. A large study of the psychological adjustments of late-deafened adults is being conducted by Laurel Glass and Holly Elliott of the Center for Deafness at the University of California, San Francisco. People who have not already been interviewed by them may want to contact the Center at: 3333 California St., San Francisco, CA 94143.