How to overcome the practice of deafness and promote Culture and ASL. Parents are very important for us to focus on through various activities such as movement.
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What is “Deaf”?
Some people want to remove the term of “Deaf” and replace it with a new word. I disagree. The term – Deaf – is an essential term to describe who we are.
Deafhood: Paradigm and Paradigm Shift
Discussion about Deafness Paradigm and Deafhood Paradigm. We need to make many new ideas to help us understand ourselves better in various ways. I strongly encourage people to make new idea about Deafhood via paradigms and paradigm shifts.
Submissive to the Oralism?
If you’re open minded, you’ll understand this thread.
A meaningless term of CI or Hearing Impaired or Hearing Handicapped Community is opposed to a natural term of Deaf.
My concern above is based on “We should try ourselves to forget they are deaf. We should teach them to forget that they are deaf.” – Alexander Graham Bell 1884.
A. G. Bell’s eugenic quote has intended to deny the existence of Deaf human beings and their Deaf Culture including American Sign Language. An unimaginably destructive behaviour has robbed a natural identity from the Deaf Community.
For years, the Deaf Community has swum against pseudo scientific tsunamis. People who support any unrealistic term to replace the Deaf, aren’t respecting Deaf! It has shown clearly that they’ve rejected us and have attempted to replace us with something else that we don’t want to be. What they’ve done to the humanity of Deaf people is cultural genocide and linguicism. We’ve faced many battles to overcome the threat of the Oralism.
The practice is similar to Native Americans (USA) or First Aboriginals (Canada) in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. They’ve faced horribly oppressive and destructive battles. They were almost wiped out by racism. The racism has already damaged them badly. They’ve lost so many respected leaders to the destructive racism. They’ve a few leaders left. Now they’re rebuilding their own communities through education and identity. Also, it’s happened to Aboriginal Australians and many other aboriginal people in other countries.
The Deaf population has also experienced the similar horrible practices. The Oralism has practically succeeded in destroying natural identity of many Deaf people. Now, it’s our time to get back what’s ours! YES OF COURSE, WE CAN!
If you want to learn more about it, you can get a book called “Understanding Deaf Culture: In search of Deafhood”. You can visit Deafhood websites: deafhood.us and deafhood.ca
Ignoring the Oralism is like Ignoring the Disease
Ignoring the Oralism is like Ignoring the Disease
Some people have suggested us to focus on the promotion of Deaf Culture, including American Sign Language and to ignore the Oralism. I agree with them about the Culture; however, about the Oralism, I beg to differ.
Focusing the health, we should examine any symptom for disease. Now I want you to see the comparison between disease and the Oralism. We should take care of the Deaf Culture to keep the Oralism in check. Ignoring the Oralism is like ignoring the disease.
The Oralism has harmed so many Deaf babies around the world due to its destructive methods. The Oralism continues making lots of money at the expense of parents and their Deaf children. The Oralism supporters have modified the failed methods to protect the Oralism’s interests by providing false information to governments and society at large. Many people have known about corrupt practices; however, they still support the practices. For that, they are cruel and mean. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing inhuman practices against the humanity of Deaf babies and their parents.
We can do both by promoting Deaf Culture and checking any symptom for the Oralism.
Parents vs Oralism
The insidious Oralism has attacked the Deaf Culture, including Signed Language. The Oralism has attempted to cleanse the world of reality of Deaf. It has used the barbaric methods of genocide, linguicism and eugenics/genetics against the Deaf.
Philosophically, they only want to keep biased information. They’ve manipulated many parents into the pseudo-scientific Oralism by taking advantage of flawed informed choices.
If any parent finds out about the practice of the Oralism that has denied their Deaf child’s right to a human being, I’m sure, most of them will make their child away from the Oralism.
Some parents are willing to go further by promoting the Oralism that, they know, is unhealthy for their own child. For that, I could not fathom!
ASL and English
Discussion about respecting two regular languages. PSE, Signed English, SEE1, SEE2, and other false signs are not language or even communication. They are simply broken ASL.
Forms of Communication – UPDATED
Signed English, SEE, SEE2, AVT, Cued Speech, Rochester Methods, Oralism are NOT forms of communication at all. They are part of philosophy of Oralism that has suppressed ASL and Signed Languages. Oralism and Eugenics are the same and are pseudo science (false science)
ICED: Definition of Apology: Acknowledge and Regret!
ICED’s statement of principle, the definition of apology is acknowledge and regret according to dictionaries. This is for a discussion.
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