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The Prime issue is not just about education, schools determine your future life to a great degree. There is some validity in deaf school producing poorly educated deaf people, (Some produce very well educated deaf people), a number are risk areas for abuse too, but the main issue is NOT about...

I've not seen the word 'handicapped' used for years ! as far as being seen as 'disabled' yes many who acquire deafness would agree with that as the accurate description. However people who don't understand what disability actually is in regards to deaf people unless they are in a wheelchair or...

I think I'll have to give that a miss :lol: I'll never use it, I can connect with all the people I want to without using FB, and I have no time to waste on Twitter, the problem is as a means to break isolation, it makes a virtue of it.... while you are texting you aren't signing are you... so...

How else can hearing learn ? they won't all go to classes.... perhaps if some deaf were not walking around with huge chips on our shoulders... not all hearing are out to marginalise and oppress deaf people. In my daily life if I did NOT interact however I can with hearing I would suffer total...

However this DOESN'T apply to deaf sign users ? they DON'T Have to communicate with Hearing ? even if they can talk or lip-read and sign ? Seems a bit of a one-way street. Protecting culture is a fine ideal but a refusal to integrate is hard to justify on my opinion, especially when sign is...

This assumes every Japanese uses the same method of communicating. Like the deaf they don't, there are regional dialects, Cantonese etc. The deaf don't all sign either, in reality very few are totally dependent or strictly ASL only using deaf. They use SE/SEE/Cued speech, lip-reading etc. So...

It is obvious how angry some can get just mentioning widening the communication avenues of deaf people. Of course who you socialise 'talk' with is up to you, there is resentment they are asked, I don't understand that bit. It's as if any suggestion deaf isn't all there is to life, provokes all...

I understand it is very hard for us deaf whether ASL using or oral the deaf thing presents real issues, I was wondering if many have just opted out of bothering with hearing because of that, or, as many are saying, it's choice ? I find those who say I use choice to communicate how I want, to who...

Well, if you lose hearing you are disabled by it,so that will cause huge problems, very few are happy being deaf except those who never heard anyway. I didn't say read more and not 'talk' I just suggested a text relationship is nowhere near the same as a real one, some deaf have only...

I think it matters a huge amount. Deaf are very isolated and seriously disabled people communication-wise, I am sure most do not want total restriction to deaf-only areas, most of us want a choice. To advance even the deaf world we need new ideas, new people, constant stimulation, an ability...

"The only differences is that they were born to a deaf family and have no interests in hearing technologies and all that." Many have no interest in hearing people at all... and make no attempt to bridge the divide. A lot are Greta Garbo wannabees they want the access, but nothing else. For...

9 out of 10 deaf people come from hearing parents/families, it makes little sense to call people 'oralists' and discriminators all the time, it solves nothing. Deaf pride doesn't mean it is fine to criticise hearing people all the time either. The reality of deaf people is pride leads to a...

I think the jury is out regarding what is and isn't necessary. Detail is important. I've never agreed with 'concepts' regarding sign, because that is too broad and explanation. When you are at street level, abbreviations and omissions of single words will happen, but if we are talking about...

It means Twitter and FB do not do anything much for ASL if the main means of communicating is text. I'm not knocking text I prefer it to sign language in media, as do most, just suggesting the myth these social networks ENHANCE ASL or the face to ace communication is bull, deaf are simply NOT...

Ideally log OUT of facebook then, no problem.:hmm: Never saw the point in FB myself. Until google starts monitoring its search options to prevent everyone seeing what you do on FB it's not safe at all. employers can fire you dependent on what google throws up about you on FB, and friends and...

I am no techno-luddite, I'm well aware of how it is used, I Just think just because its a trend doesn't make it as you say. Faster/quicker, yes I'm into all that, but as a TOOL which is all I see these things as being to various degrees, I do not buy the 'networking' thing in campaigning and...

Sorry, I forgot Twitter/facebook contributors have a max of 30 word understandings...:naughty:

I'm totally happy having nothing to do with online social networks :roll: I neither subscribe to facebook or twitter, because it is full of trivia mostly. It probably suits deaf because they are isolated, but whether this enhances personal interaction...... or communication, I think that still...

I blogged about that. I suggested facebook was an no-point area for discussing dhh issues and campaigning, even to advance deaf cultural awareness, it has so far failed, because FB is devoted to 'social' (In the loosest possible link to that word, give me face to face people any time....), and...

I'd sign up, except I hate facebutt and twitter... (I probably am more pissed at deafhood but...)