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Originally Posted by rockdrummer
Wouldn't one consider something that is advantageous to be important? Is it that you don't feel communicating with the hearing population is important?
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The question is not being able to communicate with the hearing world, because that can be accomplished in any number of ways. It is communicating with the hearing on
their terms, i.e. speech. And most deaf would consider that to be beneficial, but not the most important item on the list. The hearing, however, do assign a higher priority to the deaf learning to speak because they are assigning importance based on their own hearing perspective. In other words, they look at it from a "Its important to me so it must be important to all" perspective.