HEARING

Hearing

Hearing

A colleague of mine once said I would likely get riled if she saw the word "Deafness" here. She would tell you the proper term would be "Deaf People" and that the term "deafness" expresses a pathological viewpoint regarding people who are deaf. A pathological view is one in which the state of being deaf is considered to be like having a disease. The psychology of hearing or the quality of hearing is what one listens to.  Neither the phrase "state of being" nor the suffix "ness" have direct sign equivalents in ASL so it is easy to see how the term ...