Let Them Hear Foundation

Rethinking Deafness
Nouse (York University, UK)
By Chloe Alexander
October 6, 2007

Many facets of identity are influenced by being in the majority or minority. One that not many people consider is your ability to hear. For Deaf people being a cultural minority shapes their sense of self… Increasingly Deaf children risk being put forward for surgery, particularly cochlear implantation, to be ‘fixed’. The response that is encourage by the use of the term disabled is to eradicate that group, maybe through genetics or traditionally through oral education where the language of teaching is spoken English.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 at 7:59 am and is filed under Cochlear Implant News.