Came across this: Braille Makes a Comeback
(To read the full article, you’d have to sign up for a free registration.)
But the part of interest was this:
Among some students, families, and educators, use of Braille was seen as a sort of failure, some advocates say. Among the visually impaired, about 90 percent are believed to […]

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 […]

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, […]

I should note, I am writing these sorts of articles hopefully for the benefit of parents of deaf children trying to decide what’s best for their children, by describing my experiences and thoughts. This isn’t a paean to self-pity; rather this is something I’m beginning to recognize now that I’ve been learning ASL for […]

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 […]

This entry is sparked in part by seeing people, even well intentioned ones, ask the most inane and intrusive questions about the nature of deafness of deaf people or a group of deaf people. It’s certainly not limited to deafness; I see this same behavior with respect anything that’s “different” from the norm.
The person […]

This has been an interesting dialogue. Although I’ve already weighed in with a couple comments over at Toby’s blog where he posted about it here and here, I found that I wanted to examine this in more detail so rather than clutter up a comments section, I’m posting here…
In a nutshell, a deaf woman […]

Had an interesting email conversation a few days ago with and thought I’d put the gist of it here…
jcortese: I can get behind the idea that you can’t treat all deaf kids/adults the same way, because there isn’t the same level of hearing in all of them.  Like you said, HAs work great […]

I’ve been watching this video on cued speech and I must say I’m quite ambivalent.
On the one hand, it blows all the other codes I’ve seen out the water. And it actually assists in lipreading. I mean, it’s seamless. It works with the phonetics and words, and if you don’t quite pick […]

Definite food for thought here. What struck me about this video was yet another way in which people equate spoken language with intelligence. Just note: the first three minutes of this video has only background sounds: I believe it’s the water running, some humming, that sort of thing. After that, she uses […]