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Originally Posted by jillio
Exactly. The burden of change has always been placed on the deaf, not the hearing. The deaf are expected to accommodate the hearing population's needs, rather than the other way around. That needs to change. It is a hang over from the old medical model of defining disability, and it is outdated and ineffective. Unfortunately, with the psuh to implant children at younger and younger ages, the medical model, as well as oralism, is seeing a revival in general attititudes and thinking.
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Perhaps it's time to change from "deaf" to "deaf mutes" to send the world a message many deaf people are most comfortable when communicating while mute in the spoken language, and we are working to adjust to hearing people, and they should do their part, too. Deaf leaders could speak in the 1800th century, still they labeled themselves as deaf mutes, must be a reason for that?
