Lnanaa

First, I like to say that I'm not a golf player or the girl who is complaining to the deaflympic about the ban on HAs and CIs. I found this article on another website, so I copied and paste it on here for everyone to read it. It's a girl named Lauri from Michigan. We just happen to have similiar names. I thought it was an interesting topic and wondered what people thought about it.

I agreed with Banjo that this is obivously an anti-hearing movement and I don't think that people with HAs or CIs have any advantages over those who doesn't wear them.

If people are so concern about HAs breaking and spending a lot of money to replace them, then they should have insurance to cover them. It's not other people's responsibility to make sure you don't lose or break your HAs. I have insurance on mine and I have lost them or broken them numerous times. The insurance company replace them free or fixed it for free. It's just like having insurance on your sidekick, so u can replace it for free when it breaks or when u lose it.

I view HA as an accessory that people need to help them such as glasses, wheelchairs, fake legs or arms, etc. If they want to ban HAs and CIs because they're afraid it will have advantages over those who doesn't, then they should ban glasses or wheelchairs and other devices that help those with disabilities. If it weren't for these devices, these people wouldn't be able to do the things that they are capable of doing now.

Deaf culture is a very diversity culture, but it's only have one thing in common, hearing loss. Everyone handles it in different ways. If they want to call it deaf culture, they have to accept diversity.