Deaf Digital Technology Uses: A Demography Survey in East Java Indonesia

The presence of the internet that invites as a medium that makes it easy to communicate, makes the deaf support in a container. Where in the container they exchanged information related to the development of assistive technology as well as health information. Utilization of the internet by people with hearing impairment in Indonesia has not been fully maximized, given the spread of the internet by them in Indonesia is also not evenly distributed, this is related to the use of the internet media itself. This study aims to map the patterns of the use of internet media by deaf people in East Java to find out patterns of protection of persons with disabilities in this case deaf in terms of information technology. Using the online survey method provided google form, the result seems people with hearing impairment in East Java prefer to browse information by utilizing digital technology, the Internet in many ways.