The hearing world does not listen
Some may deem the above quote is another opinion by Deaf21 that the oral world’s anything but. However a number of opinions or assertions does in fact come from the inspiration of altruistic hearing people…
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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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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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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…
