Deaf Media in Germany
Deaf TelevisionGermany has the deaf television program "Seeing instead of hearing," a program similar to the United Kingdom's See Hear. Germany's program has its own website, at www.br-online.de/br-intern/sendungen/sehenstatthoeren/.
Deaf News
Germany's main deaf news site appears to be www.deaf-deaf.de. The site includes blogs, and seems to also have deaf dating.
Deaf Publications
Germany has several deaf related publications:
- The Indication (das zeichen). Published by the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf. Translates loosely to "Magazine for language and culture of gehörloser ones." It covers a variety of topics, including history, international, education, life, and reviews. At the time this article was written, the table of contents for the November issue included a circa 1815 article, "Deaf-mute as objects of medical attempts."
- "Quarter" magazine is published by the German society of hearing impaired self help and professional associations
- Hörgeschädigten Pädagogik appears to be aimed at hard of hearing people, and is published by the professional association of deaf teachers.
- A magazine about deaf kids is published by Publishing house hearing-impaired children gGmbH (www.verlag-hk.de). It looks like a journal similar to the A.G. Bell Association's Volta Review (horgeschadigte kinder erwachsene horgeschadigte). The publication's name loosely translates to "hearing impaired children - adult hearing impaired."
- Deutsche Gehorlosen Zeitung (www.taubenschlag.de/kultur/zeitungen/dgz.htm) is a deaf newspaper published by the German Deaf Association.
Deaf Education in Germany
The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf has a good online article summarizing deaf education in Germany.Teachers of the deaf in Germany have their own association, the Berufsverband Deutscher Horgeschadigtenpadagogen (www.b-d-h.de), which translates to "professional association for teachers of the deaf in Germany."
The organization "Interdisciplinary association for the promotion of bilingualer/bikultureller education hearing-impaired children and young person registered association," as the name implies, promotes bilingual-bicultural education for deaf children (www.bilis.de).
The German deaf portal taubenschlag.de, and deafbase.de, have lists of deaf schools and programs. One school for the deaf is the school for the deaf in Berlin (www.eaeschule.de).
Deaf Kids in Germany
Germany's website for deaf kids, www.deafkids.de, has a blog with news for deaf/hoh kids. Germany has original books on deafness for kids, and one such book is a book about a deaf boy and his dog. Deaf kids in Germany can attend a deaf camp sponsored by the German Deaf Association (www.gehoerlosen-bund.de/kindercamp). Deaf German kids can read "das bunte blatt (www.das-bunte-blatt.de)," a magazine similar to the American magazine World Around You. Das Bunte Blatt is published by tge professional association of Bavarian hearing-impaired paedagogues registered association, with the content produced by students at the University of Munich.German parents of deaf and hard of hearing children can participate in Bundesselternverband gehorloser Kinder (www.gehoerlosekinder.de), an organization for parents of deaf/hoh kids (similar to the American Society for Deaf Children).
Deaf Germans in History
Taubenschlag.de has a section on deaf history (Die Geschichte der Gehörlosen) that includes biographical information about three historic deaf Germans: John Goodricke (not German?), Otto Friedrich Kruse and Carl Heinriche Wilke. There is also a small selection of five articles with Deaf History information. One person well known to deaf German history is Samuel Heinicke, who in 1778 opened the first oral school for the Deaf in Germany.German Deaf Demographics
The website of the German society of hearing impaired self help and professional associations states "300,000" as total of deaf/hoh, with 80,000 deaf. Other websites state that there are between 13 and 14 million people with hearing loss in Germany. More specific statistics can be found on the DSB website, which has a statistics section.Articles on Deafness in Germany
Germany is a Western nation, so it is not hard to find articles about deafness in Germany. The ones listed here are just a small sampling of what is available. A search of PubMed.gov turned up these items:- Learning by ear: on the acquisition of case and gender marking by German-speaking children with normal hearing and with cochlear implants. Journal of Child Language. 2004 Feb;31(1):1-30.
- Deaf education in West Germany: some traditions and transitions American Annals of the Deaf, June 1978 volume 123 number 4, pages 500-2.
