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Originally Posted by shel90
Could it be that deaf children dont show signs nor recognize the signs that they are not getting equal access in the mainstreamed setting? Too often teachers, parents, and even counselors see the deaf children sitting in the classroom looking like they are understanding everything that is happening around them when it is not true.
I learned so many tricks to hide the fact that I barely understood anything most of the time.
As I got older, I realized that I wasnt getting equal access but by then my self-esteem was so damaged that I was afraid to speak up and I also blamed myself for not trying hard enough.
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so did I, but honestly i dont even know it, its probably so well hidden, concealed in to my subconscious.
I think it would be a good idea to create some sort of initative to create some sort of workshop to reveal that 'hidden denial' behaviours which we have done to ourselves, as a way to get past the mere language politics, becasue like without the 'why deaf people had to go thru - awareness in the public (than just Sign language _ because hearing people automatically thinks sign language problems only 'belongs to deaf people, and partly the education system - all without realising they (actual hearing people closest (and close proximy in according to Brofenbrenner's ecological system) to their deaf members have contributed that unwitting re-inforcement to the suppression of deaf people's real struggle surrounding being cut off from interaction and inclusion. Im just blabbing off ideas here, i kind of feel its a good time and thing to investigate this sort of matter further. Language politics is 'here to stay but it cant advance without those other dis-abliing factors brought to the fore.
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