Why are the Deaf tethered to a certain slant?
Someone once tried telling me the Deaf people were fascists. It was an eye opener and it came from a left winger – a woman who was a feminist in fact. Nevertheless does it have…
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Vawlty Towers
On the corner of 35th Street NW and Volta Place NW in Washington D.C. can be found Vawlty Towers. Basil Fawlty wont be spotted there but the ghost of a certain Alexander Graham Bell may…
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A little known 1950s oralist experiment and its fall-out
This is about the post-war oralist programme aimed at rearing fully conversant hearing speakers out of Deaf children. How did this special experimental oralist programme of the 1950s and 1960s originate – which few know…
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From Jane Eyre to false truths – an experience of reality
I often wondered about Jane Eyre – the heroine in the TV/films of Charlotte Bronte’s famous novel. Why did Charlotte Bronte write this story? Was it a reflection of something that had happened to her?…
