My Thanks to Candace A. McCullough

Thank you, Candace, for explaining about the difference between deficit thinker and deficit thinking. I am learning everyday to be careful how to use words.

What I had meant was the deficit thinking should be eliminated from DeafRead.com and we should empower each other the betterment in Deaf education and language for babies and children in schools.

Some of you still don’t know me but I was impress with Jean Boutcher’s comment in Ella’s vlog and how true that English is my second language which was forced upon me before I learned ASL. I would like for you to read what Jean said.

Before I copy and paste Jean Boutcher’s comment on this post, I apologize for creating a misunderstanding about censorship of someone’s blog rather than it should be their deficit thinking.

COPIED AND PASTED from Ella’s vlog by Jean Boutcher, Dec. 17th 2007 at 1:54pm…….

Having done the exegsis on all blogs and comments in regard to “Deficit Thinking”, I have come into a conclusion that those who have thrown stones at John Egbert have misunderstood the essence of John’s message.

More often than not have I read that hearing
people admit that they have misspoken — or miswritten, for that matter. Unquestionably,
those who have castigated John must have misused maybe more words in their lifetimes.
Is criticising John the way to purify themselves? Only Jova knows.

Albeit making himself clear every now and then that he is the paragon of AGB, those who criticise him actually hide their heads in the sand. Nowhere has John condemned CI, oralism, Cued. Very matter-of-factly, he still exercises the speech. Stay with me.

What John objects to in all of his blogs is AGB’s comdemnation of the use of sign language.

Is this objection reasonable? Verily! Look at ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and NAACP. An objection would raise should anyone ever make a racist slur against the Jewish people and the black people. They righteously do so. What happened when Mel Gibson expressed his negative thoughts regarding Jewish people? ADL objected! What happened when Don Imus did the same thing insulting the black cheerleaders. NAACP objected.

Why do some people forbid culturally Deaf people to object when hearies discourage sign language?

John is deaf. He was forced to learn a second language without learning his NATURAL sign language which is verily his birthright.

Not for a nanasecond do I believe that John really means when he said to censor. Back to square one, hearing people are sometimes stuck or search for a right word or are at a total loss with words and eventually use a wrong word. Even foreigners who can read and write in English are still stuck with a right word in a second language and would ask me, “How do you say it?” When consulted,
they would begin to realise that they did not mean what they initially said. Train go sorry? Forever? Ostracising John forever? Non! Non! Deaf people would be apt to ask if a blogger would care to clarify or elaborate and would, thereafter, quickly and readily understand deaf people who are stuck with words in a second language. What John really meant in his blog (12/16/07) was that he wants AGB to fully accept sign language as the birthright of deaf people.

In the closing, it is quite taxing to see
some people accuse culturally Deaf people
as “deaf fanatics.” Au contraïre, they are
not. They merely treasure, value, and defend
Deaf culture and ASL. Are the French unreasonable for objecting when American-
English businessmen attempt to colonise or
bastardise the French language by advertizing “Le Car” instead of “La voiture”? Certainly not. Therefore, the
French Minister of Culture righteously
defended the French language by fining an
American businssman. The same can be said
about deaf people.