Speech-impaired hearing-impaired people (clubs)

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An interest group of speech- communicating deaf , residual hearing and hard-of- hearing was founded in Germany at the beginning of the 2000s and in Switzerland in the mid-1990s under the name Verbal-communicating hearing-impaired , each organized as an association . Since the mid-2010s, the Swiss association has been using and using the term Lautsprachlich Kommunizierende hearing-impaired people .

Germany (LKHD)

The Friends of LKHD - Speech-Speaking Communicating Hearing Impaired Germany e. V. (short form Förderverein LKHD or LKHD ) is a Germany- based association of hearing impaired people of all ages who communicate in spoken language . The nationwide active association was founded in 2000 and is based in Munich .

According to its statutes and pronouncements, the main concern of the association is to “enable or facilitate integration into the 'hearing' society for the hearing impaired”. According to its own statements, the LKHD regards it as its most important task to “inform the public about the possibilities of a spoken language education for hearing-impaired children as a basis for real integration”. Other tasks include a .:

  • "Improvement of the conditions for the hearing impaired in the field of hearing technology through experience reports"
  • "Improvement of the prerequisites in advance for a successful verbal education of hearing-impaired children" such as by means of screening procedures for newborns, more intensive cooperation with ENT and pediatricians, acousticians, speech therapists and specialists in hearing impaired education on site as well as education of ENT and pediatricians about the possibility of spoken language support hearing impaired children
  • Support for the hearing-impaired who communicate in spoken language through information and experience reports as well as through leisure time and meetings

The LKHD regularly organized annual meetings at different locations in Germany and initially published the newspaper LKHD Nachrichten four times a year . One of the largest projects of the association was the 5th International Auditory-Verbal Congress 2003 ("AV-Congress"), which took place in Berchtesgaden and that of the LKHD in cooperation with Susann Schmid-Giovannini and the International Advice Center for Parents of Hearing Impaired Children in Meggen (Switzerland).

The LKHD has not appeared in public since around 2011/13. The former association website www.lkhd.de has been switched off and is only available in the web archive of the Internet Archive project .

In 2003, a parents' initiative was founded to promote the spoken language of hearing impaired children, which initially worked closely with the LKHD. The parents 'association bears the name Kleine Lauscher - parents' initiative to promote spoken language support for hearing-impaired children. V. and has its seat in Friedberg (Hessen) . It is mainly active in the German state of Hesse .

Switzerland (lkh.ch, formerly LKH Switzerland)

In Switzerland , the self-help association LKH Switzerland, a self-help organization for people with hearing impairment who communicate using spoken language (LKH Switzerland) was founded in 1994 . The reason for this was u. a. that towards the beginning of the 1990s it was mainly the hearing impaired who communicated in sign language who made themselves felt in the Swiss media. In two media-effective demonstrations with more than 1000 participants each in front of the Bundeshaus in Bern (April 1993) and in front of the University Hospital in Zurich (summer 1993), the "sign language experts" demanded that sign language be recognized as a fully-fledged means of communication for the deaf and also protested against the uncritical use of the Cochlear implant in the deaf. From the point of view of the hearing impaired who communicate in spoken language, and in particular that group of deaf people who communicate in spoken language, their sometimes different needs in the public and in the social sector threatened to be neglected. In order to counteract this and to be able to represent your interests on a political level, the self-help organization LKH Switzerland was founded.

However, LKH Switzerland is expressly not an association that is committed to abolishing sign language. Rather, the Swiss LKH Association recognizes sign language as a full and genuine language. At the same time, it is the aim of LKH Switzerland to promote spoken language as a form of communication (if possible as the mother tongue) of the deaf and to inform the public that there are not only signing deaf people, but also deaf people who cannot speak sign language.

In contrast to signing deaf people, according to LKH Switzerland's own statements, deaf people who speak spoken language do not claim their own culture, as they would both feel integrated in the “hearing world” and feel a part of this world. Most of the deaf people who speak verbally have a hearing environment so that they rarely meet one another.

According to its own statements, the association had over 200 members from Switzerland and abroad in 2005, made up of hearing impaired people, parents and experts. However, only the hearing impaired are entitled to vote and vote.

Since 2015, after a name change, the Swiss association has been operating as lkh.ch, Verbatim Communicating Hearing Impaired (lkh.ch). According to lkh.ch's own statements, this illustrates a paradigm shift : “The path from integration , i.e. incorporation, towards inclusion , the self-evident social affiliation of all people. That's why we move away from hearing impaired and towards hearing impaired . ”According to its own press release, lkh.ch aims to“ empower hearing-impaired people ”.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Cf. (former) official website of the German LKHD Association ( Memento from June 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ See the official website of the German self-help group Kleine Lauscher - parents' initiative for spoken language support for hearing-impaired children e. V. In: kleine-lauscher.de. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d See history of the LKH Switzerland ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c d Cf. official website of the Swiss self-help organization lkh.ch, Lautsprachlich Kommunizierende hearing impaired. In: lkh.ch. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  5. ↑ See media release of April 19, 2015. In: lkh.ch. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .