Originally Posted by Nesmuth

I can answer that for her.

It's the so called 'Big Deaf Industry Complex' (Big Deaf), a haphazard network of non and for-profit organizations, simply cashing in on the special needs of deaf people. Their existance relies heavily on deaf people depending on other people for many things including communication access services. Deaf independence hurts them and, therefore, it's in the Big Deaf interests that deaf people continue to depend on others.

Richard