Every lecturer or new professor usually faces a situation in their first appearance: having to explain something that seems tremendously simple, even logical but still something that the audience doesnât know about.
Something like this happens when talking about deaf people. Deaf, not mute. Being deaf means having some hearing impediment, but it does not necessarily mean having the vocal chords and the rest of the phonetic apparatus damaged.
Plato and Aristotle already suggested the possibility that a lack a hearing had the consequence of a lack of oral skills. However, this idea was discarded until the twentieth century, when deafness was thoroughly studied.
A deaf person doesnât speak because he hasnât learned how to, or because he doesnât want to, or because he canât. The rehabilitation of a deaf person begins at a very young age and extends itself until the personâs twenties. Of course progress varies according to several factors: hearing loss, the use of an implant or earpiece, the number of rehabilitation hours, etcâŠ
A lot of deaf people reject âspeakingâ, because they consider that it is not their language. They have to speak a language they donât hear and have a hard time understanding. This clashes with the hearing/speaking populationâs perspective, which maintains the posture that if most of the society hears/speaks, the deaf people should adapt as best as they can to itâŠ
The question that emerges from all of this is: should we all be heterosexual, white catholic women born in the northern hemisphere as most of the population is????
To learn more:
http://smart-track.info/vivir-sordera/videosdhex.aspx
