When DeafRead came out last year, it was the first world-wide means of empowerment, a type of media for Deaf people that enabled us to interact, communicate, empower, and support one another. DeafRead was the “voice” to the world of Deaf people–as we really are.


This reality is just like what happened when the hearing world was able to first use the telephone. People were able to be in touch with each other when it was invented and this increased hearing people’s awareness of the world around them. Also, television and radio were also very important forms of media for the hearing, to be able to know what is going on.  Just before and during World War II, all hearing people listened to the radio every day. They were empowered when the announcers told them the good news.  They also heard bad news, but they were more prepared that way for any event that might come.


There are 900,000 deaf people in United States of America that use ASL/English who do not have the ability to use any verbal method.  One blogger kept claiming in DeafRead that there are 30 million other “deaf” people that use hearing aids who have no desire to learn American Sign Language.  So in other words, the ASL deaf community is a minority in comparison to the 30 million “hard of hearing”.  This blogger kept telling us that some of these majority of hearing-impaired people can talk on the phone, can sometime understand radio TV without captions, etc, etc.


And now, DeafRead is being invaded by these hearing-impaired people who are telling us (actually deaf) Deaf people to forget about visualizing and pursuing the goals of improving education and ASL-language acquisition for deaf babies and children in schools because the 30 million hearing impaired people are the majority who seem to be doing alright while under the control of some mega-organizations and industries which provide supplements to “overcome” deafness (such as surgeries to make deaf people to be like hearing people.)


And now this blogger took a poll last month in DeafRead, asking whether we should have more CI bloggers and their hearing parents participate in DeafRead, telling us their “wonderful” news about having their tiny children implanted without having any idea of the ramifications of this or how this will eventually impact their deaf children when socialization becomes the major issue as they grow up.


So now you know that DeafRead is the only source right now for the (actually deaf) Deaf community which enables to be able to speak out, to support each other, empower each other and participate in many other positive activities and share many other positive ideas. Do we need to tell other people to go to other forums for their needs? They are capable of associating with others on these forums while those of us 900,000 profoundly or near-profoundly deaf people can have our one and only internet-media forum to communicate with each other…..DeafRead?


How do you, Deaf people, from all over the world feel about this?

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by egbertpress
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