I came across this article over the summer and was immediately struck by the obvious parallels: So let’s just go back to segregation, then. I thought many of the things she had to say about the issues black children face in schools is very much like what deaf children face in schools. In […]

The Carnival can be found here.
I’ve certainly come a long way since the last Blogging Against Disability day (”Sound out of Stone” and “Perceptions.” Note that the latter holds some assumptions about the “Deaf community” that I no longer hold, although it’s interesting to see me argue for what is Bi-Bi from a position […]

You know, on a theoretical level, I “understand” audism. I can see how the social structures have hearing down as the default in so many ways, above and beyond just the obvious ones. I can see how the state of being deaf is medicalized and so on.
But on an emotional level, […]

Over the last couple of months I have found myself objecting to the term “oralist,” at least as applied to myself. In addition, the more I contemplate the terms “oral failure” and “oral success,” the angrier I get. Why?
Let’s take “oralist” first. I can see that it’s used in […]

I found this question very interesting. Now, I am what would be considered an “oral success.” However, like John, I am very careful, and actually have been for years: even not being aware of deaf culture, etc, I knew my story wasn’t typical and should not be used to support oralism across the […]

I have come across more than one comment that makes it clear some consider the requirement to learn English a form of audism toward deaf people. I am unconvinced. In the following discussion I am referring strictly to reading and writing English; speaking English is a completely different matter and must be handled […]

Well, there’s the good news and the bad news
First the wonderful news: it looks like all the pressure on the FCC is paying off. They have granted more reasonable blocks of time to prepare objections to the requested exemptions; previously it looked like the FCC was going to simply railroad things through […]

One of the things that has struck me in reading about deaf education these last couple of months is this extremely common rationalization that I see:
“English is a second language for many deaf people, so their English skills are usually at fourth grade level or so.”
This concept just boggles my mind. But on reflection […]

There have been some very good posts out on the recent FCC activity in granting “permanent” exemptions to the ADA’s requirement for closed captioning. In a nutshell, the ADA when enacted provided for “total” captioning to be implemented by January of 2006. Looks around herself. Nuh, uh, not by a long shot. […]

Alrighty, next time I see more vapid whinging that the press was so so terribly unfair and wrong to pick up on Gallaudet administration’s claim that the protesters believed JKF “not deaf enough” and mealy mouthed claims that “oh we’re all in this together, we all love each other” I’m gonna point straight here and […]