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Adriana Linares Date: Sun Apr 18, 1999 1:01 am Subject: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hi! My name is Adriana Linares and I am a student at Florida International University. I am currently writing a research paper on Deaf Culture and the Deaf Identity for my Cross Cultural Studies in Education course. In order to complete my research, I need to interview three more people who consider themselves part of the Deaf Community or Deaf Culture. I ask for the Help of anyone that fits that description and would not mind answering the following interview questions. Please e-mail me your responses by Monday(4/19/99)afternoon to my e-mail address: Thank you for your time and support! I appreciate it very much!!!!=) INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ***(see note below): 1. What is your full name? 2. When and where were you born? 3. Were you born deaf (pre-lingually deaf) 4. Do you have any brothers or sisters? Hearing or deaf ? 5. Is anyone else in your family deaf? 6. How did that affect you as you were growing up? 7. What do you think it means to be Deaf as opposed to deaf? 8. Do you consider yourself part of the Deaf Community? 9. What does Deaf culture and the Deaf community mean to you - how do you define it/them?, 10. Do you sign? ASL? 11. Were you raised with ASL, was it used at home by your family? If not, how did you learn it? 6. Do you have Deaf friends? 7. Are they other people in your family who are Deaf (culturally Deaf)? 8. Do you go to Deaf clubs or other places of the Deaf Community? 9. Where did you got to school (Elementary, middle, high school, college)? 10. Did you or anyone in your family go to a residential school? If so, is that an important part of you or them? Is that something that makes up your/their identity (who you are) ? 11. If you had to define yourself, what would you say? With what cultural group do you identify yourself? Would you identify yourself with the Deaf culture? 12. Do you have a Deaf Identity e what do you consider the Deaf identity to be? What does it mean to be Deaf? 13. What is important is creating that Identity ÿÿ s it the family, the language, the schooling, the beliefs learned as a child? Is it something else? Or a combination of everything? 14. Does the form of communication, degree of hearing, and/or use of assistive devices affect how you identify yourself as being part of the Deaf community? 15. Anything else that you can tell me about yourself or your family that would help me understand Deaf Culture and the Deaf identity? 16. THANK YOU ! *** I know that these are a lot of questions, but please answer what you can. If you're confused about some questions please e-mail me. Some of the questions may overlap because there are so many different things I need to cover in my paper that I wanted to make sure I asked everything. I will incorporate the info you give me about yourself and your family with the research I have found, such as the book A Journey into the Deaf-World, research articles (some written by Carol Padden), and the internet (Cindy's Homepage, Deaf World Web, miningco.com, etc). THANK YOU for you help!!!! You're a lifesaver =) SMILE! Adriana Linares =) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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