WFD 2015 – Growing Up in the Deaf Community: Coda, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Childhoods as a Third Culture Kid Experience
Cultures / English / Identity

WFD 2015 – Growing Up in the Deaf Community: Coda, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Childhoods as a Third Culture Kid Experience

Abstract: A striking cultural difference between parents and their own children is taken for granted in most of our Deaf communities surrounded by the hearing world. Be it hearing children of Deaf parents, Deaf children of hearing parents or even Deaf children of Deaf parents as their parents have been raised in vastly different circumstances as … Continue reading

Martin Miller: Das wahre ‘Drama des begabten Kindes’: Die Tragödie Alice Millers – Wie verdrängte Kriegstraumata in der Familie wirken
Deutsch / Identity / News / Reading

Martin Miller: Das wahre ‘Drama des begabten Kindes’: Die Tragödie Alice Millers – Wie verdrängte Kriegstraumata in der Familie wirken

Alice Millers Buch “Das Drama des begabten Kindes und die Suche nach dem wahren Selbst,”  von 1979, gehören für mich und für viele andere zu den Büchern, die sehr aufschlussreich sind über die Reflexion der eigenen psychischen und emotionalen Gegenwart mit Blick auf unsere Kindheit. Meine eigenen Eltern tendierten dazu, mich als “allwissende Hörende” zu … Continue reading

2013 Exhibit: Deaf-Jewish Life in Berlin as Part of NS Destroyed Diversity
English / News

2013 Exhibit: Deaf-Jewish Life in Berlin as Part of NS Destroyed Diversity

The German association for Deaf Jews in Berlin, IGJAD, is presenting a signed film about the Deaf-Jewish experience around the Nazi Era by the example of the large, all-deaf family of Markus Milet who had a flourishing carpenter’s shop in Berlin. It is wonderful to see this double minority represented among all the different cultures … Continue reading