I’m disgusted!!!…Look at NIDCD’s Website

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Improving the lives of people who have communication disorders

Take a look at this site;

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/asl.asp

It shows the content page about American Sign Language

What is American Sign Language?
Is sign language the same around the globe?
Where did ASL originate?
How does ASL compare with spoken language?
Why does ASL become a first language for many deaf people?
Why emphasize early language learning?
What does recent research say about ASL and other sign languages?

And on the bottom of the content page says;

Additional resources for acquisition of language by deaf children

And guess who is the first on the list to get resources from?

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) _3417 Volta Place, NW_Washington, DC 20007-2778_Voice: (202) 337-5220_Toll-free Voice: (866) 337-5220_TTY: (202) 337-5221_Fax: (202) 337-8314_E-mail: info@agbell.org_Internet: www.agbell.org

Was NIDCD aware that AGBell knows nothing about American Sign Language?

I am pretty sure that NIDCD knows that AGBell is a Eugenic Philosophy Organization that bans visual/sign language from deaf babies and deaf school children.

Or is it that NIDCD knew that AGBell would successfully brainwash newly parents of deaf babies before other early intervention group would have a chance to tell the truth about American Sign Language?

And also;
National Cued Speech Association (NCSA)_23970 Hermitage Road_Cleveland, OH 44122_Voice: (216) 292-6213_Toll-free Voice: (800) 459-3529_Toll-Free TTY: (800) 459-3529_Fax: Call for number_E-mail: info@cuedspeech.org _Internet: www.cuedspeech.org

What does Cued Speech Association know about American Sign language?

I wrote an email nidcdinfo@nidcd.nih.gov to NIDCD telling them that National Association of the Deaf should be on the top of the list regardless of the alphabet method of having an eugenic organization first on the list that newly parents would get the “flawed” resources. And please remove those two biased/naive resources from the page.

Do you agree with me? If so, email them and tell them to remove it now!!!

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John F. Egbert

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