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The Rise of Deaf
Culture
the 19th
by Lauren Hill
labeled deaf people as “feeble-minded” individuals
evolved to be seen as “an affliction that isolated the
themselves which characteristics were more “fit” than
theme in that we, as a society, were not based on
our individual selves, but seen as a whole, a whole
to view deaf people, not as a community and culture,
This idea of betterment a few years later led to the
unnatural, undesirable state and those that felt the
deaf are “neither disabled nor diseased [and are an
the belief was that they could then fully immerse
an art, one that not everyone can learn and, when a
a president that had a similar internal foundation
required to provide relay service for the deaf, and
the deaf community was able to re-establish what
79
st
century, where deaf people have
have been created for the deaf have not necessarily
people can teach, can hold office, can appreciate
The vibrations then send electrical impulses to the ear
The debate over cochlear implants displays
to have their voices heard that the candidate, Jane
Fernandes, needed to step down because, while she
“advocates for the deaf say it is brutal to open a
For some, cochlear implants do represent a
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