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Originally Posted by Grummer
i hate to be blunt but even the Deafs from ther cultural perspectives end to be quite disablist as well!, they demand all deafs to be competent in signs and be punished if they dont. This doesn't help the quest for all deaf and Deaf people to gain equality/equity (depending whats your vews/philosophy are) when they practise elitism of their own version. Two wrongs doesnt make a right. Disability does not mean un-ablity as DD said that is correct, however some 'adaptions' are often NOT what disabled people wanted and even if it is so, maybe even the delivary is not appropropriate, thus disabilty has not got alot to do with 'impairments' as professionals like to say, it is more about how decision 'are made already' by arrogant career-mnded professionals. Now does can any one identify this happening within the deaf-welfare/advocacy organisations? can you see how some its just there in different form, like its really the same cake, with different icings.
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First of all you should watch your spelling...Second as JennyB asked "Are you deaf? hoh? Have a deaf child (or children)? or maybe you're a CODA? If the answer is no to all of the above, then how do you have a right to comment on what is what if you are deaf/hoh?
I know that I have a disability but I don't pity myself. Ya, I need some accomodations because I like to hear what is going on, and to be able to get the full "picture" (esp. in class) I need note takers and an FM system as well as good seating so I can lipread. If my hearing decreases I will have to learn ASL (which I am starting next year) and I think it's a GREAT tool to have. Why only use some of the tools in the toolbox, if you need them, if you have all the tools right in front of you?
I am taking linguistics next year and I hope to go on to take my Masters and become a Speech Language Pathologist and I will support the bi-bi approach because ha or not, ci or not, ASL and oral language is, in my opinion, the best approach. As I was not born deaf/hoh it was never an issue for me to learn ASL, if I had been born deaf/hoh I'm sure my mom would have wanted me to be happy being bi-lingual (asl and eng) rather than possibly struggling later on in life just because some people think that being oral is the answer to being "normal".