There is an interesting article in Sunday’s New York Times titled “Deaf and Hard of Hearing Fight to Be Heard.” Unfortunately it addresses only a small proportion of the “d…
Source: Hard of Hearing? Nobody’s Listening.
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Very good post! I was wondering about all that when I read the NYT piece on Sunday. And until you pointed out the disparity, I had not given thought to the Deaf-as-Sexy versus HL-as-Not conceptualization. In addition to sign language being seen as expressive and poetic, do you think there is also some ageism in there? xo, Helena
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Ageism… I’m sure you’re right about that. Interesting idea.
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So I need to be a young signing deaf woman, as opposed to a 60-ish hearing aid wearer. Sigh.
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