The Importance of Sign Language Use in Post-Sexual Abuse Treatment Models for Women with Deafness

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220304.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Women with Deafness; Bisindo; Sexual Harassment

Abstract

The case against women with deafness is the lowest recorded case, but that does not mean that the data is not available but that the victims do not know how to complain about the sexual harassment cases they face. The leading cause of issues against women with deafness is not handled correctly; there are communication barriers, namely the use of different languages. People with deaf use sign language to communicate. There is no handling of sexual violence against deaf people, yet that uses the distinctive approach of deaf communication. This article emphasizes the communicative modality through sign language, added in Post-Sexual Harassment Treatment for Deaf Women. This study aims to see the importance of using sign language for handling cases of sexual harassment in women with deafness. The study was conducted on 166 respondents from various professions and two sign language experts. As a result, 54% of respondents suggested using sign language in the model for handling cases of sexual harassment.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Marlina Marlina
AU  - Yuninda Tria Ningsih
AU  - Zulian Fikry
AU  - Dea Resti Fransiska
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/03/28
TI  - The Importance of Sign Language Use in Post-Sexual Abuse Treatment Models for Women with Deafness
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Gender Studies (WCGS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 235
EP  - 241
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220304.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220304.035
ID  - Marlina2022
ER  -