Studien undersöker dövkompetensens betydelse (kunskap om döva, teckenspråk och deras kultur) för döva i mötet med rättsväsendet. Syftet är att visa vilka konsekvenser som avsaknaden av dövkompetensen kan få. För att få svar på studiens frågor valde jag en kvalitativ och explorativt forskningsansats för att undersöka respondenternas uppfattning och upplevelse av mötet med rättsväsendet. Kvalitativ intervjustudie med döva med teckenspråk som sitt första språk. Som har varit i behov av samhällsstöd och upplevt avsaknad av dövkompetens. Åtta personer intervjuades och därefter gjordes en analys för att tolka och förstå döva som upplevt denna avsaknad av dövkompetens. Som analysredskap har jag valt vardagsrasism och audism som teoretiska utgångspunkter. De slutsatser jag har fått fram av respondenterna är att bemötandet de fått i mötet med rättsväsendet egentligen inte är enskilda handlingar, eftersom dessa enskilda handlingar upprepas av olika enskilda personer. Till följd av avsaknaden av dövkompetens har konsekvenserna oftast blivit allvarliga och till och med förödande för några av respondenterna. / The study investigates the meaning of deaf competence (knowledge of deaf, sign language and their culture) when deaf people encounter the justice system. The intention is to outline the consequences of the lack of deaf competence. I´ve chosen a qualitative and explorative research approach in order to reach the answers of the study, to examine the respondents’ perception and experience in the encounter with the justice system. Qualitative interviewstudy with deaf people who´s first language is sign language and who´s been in need of support from the society and experienced the lack of deaf competence. Eight people were interviewed and then an analysis was made to interpreted and understand deaf people who´s experienced the lack of deaf competence. As tools during analysis I use everyday racism and audism theoretical smarting points. The conclusion I´ve reached from the respondents is that the treatment they’ve received from the justice system actually isn´t individual actions, due to these individual actions being repeated by various individual people. The lack of deaf competence as a result of the consequences are often become serious and even devastating for some of the respondents.

Syftet med studien är att uppmärksamma äldre döva. Genom kvalitativa undersökningar belysa äldre dövas tankar och farhågor om att åldras och eventuellt vara i behov av äldreomsorg, utifrån perspektiven social konstruktion och stigmatisering. Studiens fem informanter var, en från biståndsenheten, en äldrevägledare samt tre äldre döva personer för att få ett brett perspektiv på problemområdet. För att skapa det empiriska materialet användes semistrukturerade intervjuguider. Empirin har analyserats med meningskategorisering i programmet Nvivo-12 för att få fram relevanta och trovärdiga resultat. Inom tidigare forskning var det svårt att finna artiklar som tar upp ämnet äldre döva, vilket understryker behovet av ytterligare forskning kring ämnet. Vi har i vårt resultat kunnat urskilja att det finns en diskriminering av äldre döva i processen kring äldreomsorg. Vi fann också att hörande, som inte har någon dövkunskap, som kommer i kontakt med döva konstruerar egna uppfattningar om dövas livsvillkor, utifrån okunskap och samhällsnormer. Resultat av studien visar också att det finns möjligheter till förbättring där vissa städer efter påtryckningar av dövrörelsen har öppnat äldreomsorg för döva samt medborgarkontor

The goal of this Master’s thesis is to explore the approach and general attitude of public libraries regarding Sign Language Literature. There is a need to study and advance how the deaf can find ways to read in their own language, as it is as important to them to be able to read in their language, as it is to the next hearing person. The purpose is to define and explain the full capacity of the problem. In the process of research, by investigating how library staff approaches and deal with deaf patrons, the nature of the patron-staff relationship is revealed. A closer look at the collections of Sign Language Literature that are found in libraries today, further expose how the deaf patrons’ fundamental need for literature in their own language has been marginalized. In collecting data, the method used was qualitative descriptive alignment. Based on fourteen interviews in total, eight public libraries, three state deaf school libraries and three library advisors were included in the research process. Moreover were previous research and the method of subjective interpretation of law used. As this thesis seeks to put forth, results show that library staff has little or no knowledge of deaf people and their needs. Although the respondents maintain a positive attitude toward Sign Language Literature when asked, they lack specific training in how to successfully accommodate deaf patrons; thus, libraries and their staff remain somewhat ignorant in their approach, failing to take their deaf patrons as seriously as the hearing population. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The purpose of this paper has been to highlight how discourses on disability are portrayed in two different applications for additional funding for students with special educational needs (SEN) of hearing impairment, and two regarding neuropsychiatry. The paper studies a total of 328 applications for additional funding and chosen four of these for a further in depth analysis. The aim of the paper has been to highlight and pinpoint how the four different applications, describes different discourses and perspectives on disability from a perspective of ableism and audism. This ergo in turn creates different fields of transferred discourses from each individual application. The paper has also analyzed what discourses results in granted additional funding from the two municipalities. The paper has used an applied method of Sara Ahmed’s perspective on discourse analysis (2012) and Sara Ahmed’s Queer phenomenology (2006) as a theoretical framework. The purpose of this has been to distinguish use of governmentality and documentality, in order to highlight discourses on ableism and audism. The conclusions drawn from this paper are that the categorical perspective dominates applications regarding neuropsychiatry while the compensatory perspective dominates applications regarding hearing impairment. This in turn points to that the Swedish state should take control of assessing applications for SEN needs from the municipalities. This would possibly lead to increased equivalence and allocation of resources regarding decisions on additional funding for SEN needs. The results show that ableism, audism, governmentality and documentality are predominant discourses in the written applications for additional funding, which works to construct and whole fully connect the SEN need to being the identity of the student.

This research employed a case study approach to understand emerging themes that may be garnered through documenting the lived experiences of online Deaf activists who have used the video feature available through social media outlets, such as YouTube, as a way to overcome the language barrier typically present for linguistic minorities who are leading social movements within an English-speaking, hearing majority. The focus of this study was the members of the Deaf Community that have taken to an online podium in their fight for autonomy and equality. They champion their Deaf identity, their right to agency and autonomy in areas of language, access, education and employment, in what has exploded into the largest social movement in their cultural history. Therefore, two questions were at the center of this research: 1. "How has experiencing audism affected the lives of Deaf people?", and 2. "How has the use of social media as a platform to fight against audism through natural linguistic expression in American Sign Language impacted that experience?". The growth of individual Deaf identity has created a community action network for the Deaf Community, and access to the technology of videophones and instant access to wireless Internet has brought with it the use of video blogs, or vlogs, within the Deaf Community at explosive rates. The movement from disability to a place of diversity and cultural, ethnic and linguistic minority personhood for the Deaf is a path that is still being forged. Presented in this study is a glimpse into this journey, through a case study of their lived experience.