Deaf History Month (March 13 - April 15)
Deaf history focuses, in large part, on a centuries-long struggle over ways to overcome a heritage of discrimination by the hearing world and to provide better opportunities for the hearing-impaired.
Language lies at the center of this debate. While some endorse sign language as the natural method of communication and education for the deaf, others believe that deaf people should learn spoken and written language so they can be mainstreamed with the rest of society.
With the appearance of such recent technological innovations as the cochlear implant, questions of community, language, integration and identity continue to rage.
A photo of Hellen Keller, Annie Sullivan and Alexander Graham Bell.
Where do you stand on the issue? Do you think endorse the sole use of sign language or learning spoken language or maybe a combination of both?
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