The purpose of this study is to explore all the deaf couples marriage experiences. To achieve this purpose, the qualitative case research approach was used to analyze the couple. To complete the purpose of this research, This researcher summarized all the process as well as the results.
There were 5 couples(10 participants) who have been married for five years. Correspondence were done through sign language. Gathering information was taken seven months from April 2014- October 2014. Informations were gathered mainly through depth interview and observation. The Interview was recorded and jotted down.
This researcher used the triangulation method wherein there are the interviewee, the sign language interpreter and the couples being interviewed. It took one and a half month to complete the interview from two sign language interpreters.
To get appropriacy and accuracy contexts feedbacks were based from participants continuously. And attachments of participants pictures, interview information, notes, text messages from the researchers and letters were included. In addition advised from two sign language interpreters with 25 years experiences and with deaf family members were gathered also. This researcher followed the way of analysis from the qualitative study case.
The analysis results were based from each 5 deaf couple marriage experience cases. This researcher analysed from titles that were from same issues. Each case analysis was stated from issues as time goes which is from every couples stories. This researcher tried to find out simple issues about growth experiences before marriage and find out same issues after marriage.
This researcher following same issues from 5 couples case study analysis. This researcher set 5 titles and analyze from the 5 main issues about the deaf couple’s experience as time goes by. The titles are ‘finally the marriage spouses both deaf’, ‘to overcome communications difficulties’, ‘worried about raising children and get some help from other people and try something’, ‘try to get over the difficulties and hardships’, ‘recovering family relationship and challenge’
Through this study, understanding the deaf couples desire in having a family and live a normal life after becoming parents is “in a family deaf culture” wherein they aspire to become more mature and experienced deaf persons.
Deaf couples have been through difficult times from the majority of physically abled persons. Most of them adopt children or want to have children of their own. To live and communicate with them using sign language. And they live confidently through communication with their normal children who use sign language. And they tried to overcome the difficulties in facing challenging situation in their married life. In other words, the constancy motivated their life to keep their deaf culture.
But the meaning of maintaining constancy was not just keeping their situation by taking familiar things hence there were no challenges. Keeping the constancy, maintaining a family since marriage, delivering and raising their children, make them realize some laws of life.
They correspond well and break the narrow limited cultural way of thinking and recognized a broader sense of understanding while keeping constancy. Their life that is keeping their culture and experiencing matured life will be a good theoretical basis for understanding the deaf culture.
For now, there are no theoretical and political discussion of deafs lives, this study can be a good basis for understanding the ground of deaf couples marriages.