AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE CLUB of PNC

About Deaf Culture

Deafness is not a disability but rather a different way of being (Deafs.com.)

Carol Padden has defined Culture as a set of learned behaviors of a group of people who have their own language, values, rules of behavior, and traditions. (1988)

Carol Padden is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where she has been teaching since 1983. She received her B.S. from Georgetown University in 1978, and her Ph.D from UCSD in 1983. Her dissertation on American Sign Language morphology and syntax was later published in the Garland Press Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series (1988).