Identity & Communication in the Deaf Community Chapter 4

Respect individual choices You will meet a wide variety of Deaf/deaf individuals whose range of self-identity, culture, politics and communication differs greatly This is also the reason you need to learn to communicate (code-switch) in many ways along a broad spectrum of styles and preferences to which your audience can relate Contact variety = A style/way to communicate when you come in contact with (a variety of people) a Deaf/deaf, hard of hearing or Deaf-Blind person, etc. All of the following might have some degree of language mixtures, such as lexical borrowing/code-mixing: Oral communication Speech-reading communication / lip-reading communication Minimal language skills (perhaps the person is not fluent in ASL/from another country / autistic, etc.) Home signs / gestural signs / highly visual (iconic) signs Signed English of various forms (also, Rochester fingerspelling method) Sign-supported speech (SEE1, SEE2, SE/PSE, CASE, total communication, sim-comm, cued speech, etc.) Tactile communication (also, Trudeau method, etc.) ASL