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Richard, as I stated before, the seperatist Deaf are REALLY in the minority overall. Only about 1% of dhh folks are Sign only, and of those the number of extremists are probly very small. Yes, there are extremists.......but overall Deaf seperatists and extremists are VERY small in number. HELLO, there's even a thread in the HA/CI forum about how there's a significent number of students at Gally with CI. Now that's something you prolly wouldn't have seen even five years ago.
Quite a lot of the seperatist mentality was born from oralists being all "Oh Sign is speshal needs! Only kids who can't speak and hear need Sign! Sign is a crutch!"
Yes, there are SOME people who honestly don't see using Sign as that helpful a tool. But, it does seem like a lot of the oral only (NOT orally skilled) brigade rejects it b/c they've been taught to see it as not a helpful skill. And you know, its very funny. Those are the SAME people who are all "Oral people are so independant and don't need to "depend on" 'terps." And then in their NEXT breath they start complaining that there's no accomondation simlair to 'terps out there for oral only folks!
So that frat is on the same campus as the high school? So what? Doesn't mean that they have a huge influence on the high school. Say there was a confederate pride group at an university. It doesn't mean that they have a large influence on its students.
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