Deaf studies

These constitute an interdisciplinary field that integrates contents, critiques, and methodologies from anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, social studies, and sociology, among others.

[1] The field focuses on the language, culture, and lives of the deaf from the social instead of the medical perspective.

[3] Deaf studies emerged with the recognition that deaf people have a culture and that such culture is unique, requiring alternative ways of understanding this segment of the population outside of pathological frameworks.

[1] Studying the lives of those who are deaf include learning about their culture, sign language, history and their human rights.

Those who participate and join this field of study are involved with promoting the change of views and perspectives of the larger society regarding Deaf people.