The Deaf are foreigners in their own country
This is from a news article in the Independent in September 1989. It had followed soon after the Deaf President Now! campaign at Gallaudet in the USA. Its is of interest in view of its…
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Why Deaf21 has been altered to separate sections?
Even though Deaf21 began with an intent to write about oralism, that was indeed an overview of how I had been affected by oralism. Within a short while it was realised a number of other…
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The incredulous existence of certain paradigms
One might think this post about what entails to be elements of the speech belief system is naff, but its certainly factual even if the very tangibility that is presented can be easily challenged. Besides…
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Deaf in Burundi – a case of paternalism
This is a very important piece of work in terms of third world countries and the ways and means in which the Deaf in those countries suffer. It parallels the situations described with what is…
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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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A plainly ridiculous Trumpism
Remember when he said ‘unpresidented?’ That’s Trump of course! Many in the US took the opportunity to distribute a free newspaper which extolled the fact that he had in fact been unpresidented. It was such…
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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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The phone never rings twice
A few years ago the famed inventor of the telephone (and of oralism and eugenics and other things) was struck off the patents registers as being the only true inventor of the telephone. The US…
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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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Railways at 200: The undesirable acts
This is a bête noire look at the railways so if you are easily offended please don’t be. That because this is not a subject to enthuse over in terms of the 200th anniversary of…
