There is the recent PayPal account setup for the fundraising effort of $1 dollar per person for the one-way plane ticket to send the particular deaf person to the likely destination to live up to hir own promise. If this deaf person refuse to accept the generous offer, then the donation will go to the non-profit organization. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/22/a-ticket-for-rush-website_n_508585.html
WHY NOT we urge the generous donors to change the possibility of targeted choice from the Planned Parenthood organization to the DEAFHOOD FOUNDATION???
If many of you really know the history of the Planned Parenthood's eugenics practices of weeding out such human undesirables back in the last century. That includes us, deaf people.
PLEASE JOIN IN THE CAMPAIGN TO URGE THE CHANGE OF CHOICE FOR FINANICAL DONATIONS GO TO THE DEAFHOOD FOUNDATION TO SNUB RUSH LIMBAUGH AND DEAF REPUBLICANS AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. THANKS!
Do we really count Rush Limbaugh as a deaf person?? Nah! At least, we could seize the real opporunity of cashing in Rush's motormouth and serve our own deaf interests at his own expenses. :)
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Will the H.R. 3962 "America's Health Choices Act of 2009" Cause Spikes In Number of Forced CI Surgery on Deaf Babies and Youngsters?
Within the Section 222 (9) broadly states the offer of hearing services along with tonight's historic vote of our first health care reform known as H.R. 3962 bill involved government intervention - (Sec. 222) Defines an "essential benefits package" as health benefits coverage that: (9) well-baby and well-child care and oral health, vision, and hearing services, equipment, and supplies for children under 21 years of age; and
This inserted language above was off from the page of H.R. 3200 generally known as "America's Health Choices Act of 2009". Not able to find the official posting of the H.R. 3962 on Section. 222 (9) whether the language concerned the hearing services remain unchanged or changed.
Stumbled upon the Section 222 (9) language to be pretty troublesome since it generalizes the hearing services, equipment and supplies for children under 21 years of age: and
Such a vague language like 9) well-baby and well-child care and oral health, vision, and hearing services, equipment, and supplies for children under 21 years of age; and
Look at the wordings of hearing services, equipment, and supplies for children under 21 years of age. That defintely meant the broad requirement for issuing the cochlear implant surgery and device.
Kinda puzzled why the language said "for children under 21 years of age". Our constitutional recognizance of any citizens to be legally declared at age of 18" Why it said "age of 21"?
Is that a real violation of our U.S. Constitution for the definition of all the citizens to be age of 21, not the age of 18?
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18 -
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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This inserted language above was off from the page of H.R. 3200 generally known as "America's Health Choices Act of 2009". Not able to find the official posting of the H.R. 3962 on Section. 222 (9) whether the language concerned the hearing services remain unchanged or changed.
Stumbled upon the Section 222 (9) language to be pretty troublesome since it generalizes the hearing services, equipment and supplies for children under 21 years of age: and
Such a vague language like 9) well-baby and well-child care and oral health, vision, and hearing services, equipment, and supplies for children under 21 years of age; and
Look at the wordings of hearing services, equipment, and supplies for children under 21 years of age. That defintely meant the broad requirement for issuing the cochlear implant surgery and device.
Kinda puzzled why the language said "for children under 21 years of age". Our constitutional recognizance of any citizens to be legally declared at age of 18" Why it said "age of 21"?
Is that a real violation of our U.S. Constitution for the definition of all the citizens to be age of 21, not the age of 18?
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18 -
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Will the Early Detection Hearing Intervention (EDHI) upcoming bill definitely pave the unstoppable way for forced cochlear implant (CI) on deaf babies and youngsters without their consents and permissions?
Will we finally see the days of health care providers resort to the forced cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies and youngsters against the wishes of deaf parents and other parents of deaf children and leading advocates of deaf communities?
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Texas State Board Left Helen Keller All Alone!
How can you imagine that the omittance of "Deaf President Now" and "Unity for Gallaudet" and "Deaf Bilingual Coaltion" and "National Association of the Deaf" from the social studies textbooks in our pre-college classrooms?
Past social studies classroom textbooks briefly did refer to the peaceful protests like "Deaf President Now" as part of the subject on civil rights activities within the United States.
Could you envision the imaginable situations involved paternalistic and audist teachers whose feel that the subjects from tjhe "DPN" to the existence of deaf signers NOT BELONG to the pages of social studies and history textbooks?
That's what happened with the major shockwaves across the nation like ignorant state board members on the revamping of state curriculum standards for teaching history and social studies in Texas. http://www.textbookreviews.org/index.html?content=rev_socl.htm
According to Kenneth G. Samson's BilioMarket deaf blog why the Texas State Education Board chose to leave Helen Keller all alone within the revision of school curriculum for history and social studies classes, why not delete her from the list of undesirable historical figures. Samson pointed out about the whole absuridity of revamping the classroom curriculums without any professional historians and sociologists and other professional means for such feedbacks. Samuel wrote very impressive blog entries from his deaf viewpoint. http://bibliomarket.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/the-list-of-shame-in-texas-%C2%AB-texas-freedom-network/
How would you feel that the comphrensive deaf history be banned from the classrooms of the deaf and hearing students to explore and appreciate and understand our own existence as a great nation?
Yes, history sadly often write by victors, not citzens and educators together to develop the apporiate classroom materials for our youngsters from develop critical thinking and analysis skills. That's what Howard Zinn and Jack Gannon done with their history books changed the course of our national consciences.
Don't you recall WHY the portrait pictures of all the President of the United States around the classroom walls of the education of the deaf ? How come didn't any posters or pictures of deaf individuals, who were significantly contributed to the humankind on the deaf classrooms?
Robert Guillory, Gallaudet graduate, once told me that I ought not to be an educator of the deaf cuz of my unwillingness to be fawned by President Ronald Reagan's charms due to his questionable policies for domestic affairs. Preferably teach both sides and pros and cons of historcial events and figures to students to make their own assessments on essay papers, not "multiple choices" or "true or false".
Look at Robert Guillory now. He turned from the rabid Republican to die-hard Democrat! After years of research history throughly on his own. Democrats and other poltiical parties are no saviors anyway.
Too many American students often find their history courses to be real pointless and illogical and ask themselves why bother with the old stuff about our forepeople (forefathers). We must make our social studies and history curriculm to be more liveable and transparent and balanced without letting extreme political ideology seep in our youngsters' mind.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Past social studies classroom textbooks briefly did refer to the peaceful protests like "Deaf President Now" as part of the subject on civil rights activities within the United States.
Could you envision the imaginable situations involved paternalistic and audist teachers whose feel that the subjects from tjhe "DPN" to the existence of deaf signers NOT BELONG to the pages of social studies and history textbooks?
That's what happened with the major shockwaves across the nation like ignorant state board members on the revamping of state curriculum standards for teaching history and social studies in Texas. http://www.textbookreviews.org/index.html?content=rev_socl.htm
According to Kenneth G. Samson's BilioMarket deaf blog why the Texas State Education Board chose to leave Helen Keller all alone within the revision of school curriculum for history and social studies classes, why not delete her from the list of undesirable historical figures. Samson pointed out about the whole absuridity of revamping the classroom curriculums without any professional historians and sociologists and other professional means for such feedbacks. Samuel wrote very impressive blog entries from his deaf viewpoint. http://bibliomarket.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/the-list-of-shame-in-texas-%C2%AB-texas-freedom-network/
http://bibliomarket.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/texas-freedom-network-rewriting-history/
From what the Gablers in the 70s objected to the classroom teaching materials about the corruption of Watergate break-ins and criticism of Vietnam War. The Gablers never had any college education. Those people ever came from Texas.
For years, the political conservatives and religious zealots attempted to seize the textbook markets by getting on the state and local education boards to force Texas and California schools to purschase the classroom textbooks to their own likings and whims. So many Christian schools across the nation, could buy textbooks much cheaply than getting them from specialized Christian educational suppliers.
http://www.christianvssecular.com/higher_standards/censorship-complexities.htm
What a big deal about Helen Keller within this subject? Samuel pointed out that Helen Keller was well-known for her socialist causes. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also had the thick files on Keller and her socialist actitivies from the 1930s to 1970s. Keller had been greatly influenced by her socialist boyfriend. http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/intro.htm
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_01/Kell171.shtml
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-c-davis/helen-keller-socialist-an_b_209599.html
More and more people begin to sense the real dangers of classroom curriculum revisions without balancing facts and historical significances within the latest Texas state education board decisions greatly affected the mentality of entire nation's future citizens. That will affect your quality of life as a deaf person in near future, too.
Our country's educational system ought to strive for balanced classroom curriculms to help the students into independent thinkers and solvers, not the bunch of feeble-minded sheeps running over the cliff.How would you feel that the comphrensive deaf history be banned from the classrooms of the deaf and hearing students to explore and appreciate and understand our own existence as a great nation?
Yes, history sadly often write by victors, not citzens and educators together to develop the apporiate classroom materials for our youngsters from develop critical thinking and analysis skills. That's what Howard Zinn and Jack Gannon done with their history books changed the course of our national consciences.
Don't you recall WHY the portrait pictures of all the President of the United States around the classroom walls of the education of the deaf ? How come didn't any posters or pictures of deaf individuals, who were significantly contributed to the humankind on the deaf classrooms?
Robert Guillory, Gallaudet graduate, once told me that I ought not to be an educator of the deaf cuz of my unwillingness to be fawned by President Ronald Reagan's charms due to his questionable policies for domestic affairs. Preferably teach both sides and pros and cons of historcial events and figures to students to make their own assessments on essay papers, not "multiple choices" or "true or false".
Look at Robert Guillory now. He turned from the rabid Republican to die-hard Democrat! After years of research history throughly on his own. Democrats and other poltiical parties are no saviors anyway.
Too many American students often find their history courses to be real pointless and illogical and ask themselves why bother with the old stuff about our forepeople (forefathers). We must make our social studies and history curriculm to be more liveable and transparent and balanced without letting extreme political ideology seep in our youngsters' mind.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Laurent Clerc's Great, Great, Great Grandaughter's Presentation
Some of you probably be interested in attending the upcoming presentation by Laurent Clerc's great, great, great granddaughter, Susan Galloway in the Nation's Capitol area (Washington, DC and Germantown, MD) next April 10th and 11th. Galloway will bring some artifacts belonged to Laurent Clerc for the presentation.
According to Alice Hagemeyer, former librarian of the deaf at the DC public library and the Laurent Clerc Facebook page. Sue Galloway's mother discovered many artifacts and personal belongings of Laurent Clerc from the family trunk in the mid-1970s.
Sue Galloway still sift over her great, great, great grandfather's stuff to assess and catalog Clerc's remaining stuff which all of the items are secured at the local bank vault.
For more info, here is
DC Public Library Adaptive Services Division and Montgomery County Public Libraries
present "The Legacy of Laurent Clerc"with Sue Galloway, Librarian, Oklahoma School for the Deaf, Sulphur, Oklahoma .
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Germantown Library
19840 Century Boulevard
Germantown, MD 20874
Sue Galloway, Librarian at the Oklahoma School for the Deaf, is also Laurent Clerc's great great great granddaughter. Laurent Clerc was the first deaf teacher of the deaf in America. She will talk about Clerc's life and importance to deaf education, and show some of his papers and books.
Montgomery County Public Libraries' program is funded by the Friends of the Library - Germantown Chapter.
Questions?
For District of Columbia Public Library’s program, contact Library Services for the Deaf Community: Voice (direct) 727-2145; Voice (via Video Relay Service) 866-570-7364; ask for Janice Rosen; Videophone (direct) 559-5368; TTY 727-2255; E-mail: library_deaf_dc@yahoo.com
For Montgomery County Public Libraries' program, contact Library Services to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community: TTY: 240-777-0902; email: drcinfo@montgomerycountymd.gov ; Videophone (direct, by appointment only): 240-637-2964; voice: 240-777-0001 (leave a message for Susan F. Cohen)
Gil Eastman, deceased Gallaudet professor had the lifetime collection on Laurent Clerc which donated to the Gallaudet University Archive, Kendall Green campus, 800 Florida Ave, NE, Washington, DC 20001.
http://archives.gallaudet.edu/Eastman68.htm
Hearty thanks to Janice Rosen, the current librarian of the deaf at the Martin Luther King public library, Washington, DC for the notification of this significant event.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
According to Alice Hagemeyer, former librarian of the deaf at the DC public library and the Laurent Clerc Facebook page. Sue Galloway's mother discovered many artifacts and personal belongings of Laurent Clerc from the family trunk in the mid-1970s.
Sue Galloway still sift over her great, great, great grandfather's stuff to assess and catalog Clerc's remaining stuff which all of the items are secured at the local bank vault.
For more info, here is
DC Public Library Adaptive Services Division and Montgomery County Public Libraries
present "The Legacy of Laurent Clerc"with Sue Galloway, Librarian, Oklahoma School for the Deaf, Sulphur, Oklahoma .
Saturday, April 10, 2010
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW, Washington, DC
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Germantown Library
19840 Century Boulevard
Germantown, MD 20874
Sue Galloway, Librarian at the Oklahoma School for the Deaf, is also Laurent Clerc's great great great granddaughter. Laurent Clerc was the first deaf teacher of the deaf in America. She will talk about Clerc's life and importance to deaf education, and show some of his papers and books.
Montgomery County Public Libraries' program is funded by the Friends of the Library - Germantown Chapter.
Questions?
For District of Columbia Public Library’s program, contact Library Services for the Deaf Community: Voice (direct) 727-2145; Voice (via Video Relay Service) 866-570-7364; ask for Janice Rosen; Videophone (direct) 559-5368; TTY 727-2255; E-mail: library_deaf_dc@yahoo.com
For Montgomery County Public Libraries' program, contact Library Services to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community: TTY: 240-777-0902; email: drcinfo@montgomerycountymd.gov ; Videophone (direct, by appointment only): 240-637-2964; voice: 240-777-0001 (leave a message for Susan F. Cohen)
Gil Eastman, deceased Gallaudet professor had the lifetime collection on Laurent Clerc which donated to the Gallaudet University Archive, Kendall Green campus, 800 Florida Ave, NE, Washington, DC 20001.
http://archives.gallaudet.edu/Eastman68.htm
Hearty thanks to Janice Rosen, the current librarian of the deaf at the Martin Luther King public library, Washington, DC for the notification of this significant event.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
What Irish and Deaf People Have in Common
Every St. Patrick's Day surely remind us much of systematic oppression and societial prejudices against deaf people and its use of sign language over decades. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2009/03/17/irish-americans-racism-whiteness/
Americans in general, have such distorted visions for Deaf Americans and other deaf people around the globe what we are supposed to be all about. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/13915/multicultural_diversity_in_america.html?cat=9
Irish and deaf people keep clinging to their proud legacy and existence. The Brits systematically oppressed the Irish people under its brutal occupation. Deaf people everywhere begun experienced the systematic assaults by hearing and "Uncle Tom" deaf individuals and corporations what they knew better for us. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2084199/irish_immigrants_and_the_discriminations.html?cat=37
Both of us, deaf and Irish people had been reglated to the lower societial postitions and employments over decades.
One major difference between deaf and Irish people nowadays, the Irish people begin to be embraced well by the society, Deaf people still face the identity revision alternatives by hearing occupiers and "Uncle Tom" with the forced installment of cochlear implant surgery on our deaf babies and youngsters.
Irish people were forced off their lands. Deaf people were forced to assimilate much further to please and satisify hearing imperialists and ignorant ones like suppressing the use of sign language for greater language and intellectual development among deaf children.
Deaf people are often treated as total strangers in their own lands since the audist society were preoccupied with the normalization and assimilation of everyone else.
Why can't we simply celebrate the beauty of human diversity which make our lives more interesting and fruitful?
Note: This blogger is not an Irish or have any drop of Irish blood, but always feel soliditary with the Irish people to celebrate the annual St. Patrick's Day. Hopefully for the Irish community to return their soliditary with deaf people everywhere. :)
Happy St. Patrick's Day 2010!
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Americans in general, have such distorted visions for Deaf Americans and other deaf people around the globe what we are supposed to be all about. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/13915/multicultural_diversity_in_america.html?cat=9
Irish and deaf people keep clinging to their proud legacy and existence. The Brits systematically oppressed the Irish people under its brutal occupation. Deaf people everywhere begun experienced the systematic assaults by hearing and "Uncle Tom" deaf individuals and corporations what they knew better for us. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2084199/irish_immigrants_and_the_discriminations.html?cat=37
Both of us, deaf and Irish people had been reglated to the lower societial postitions and employments over decades.
One major difference between deaf and Irish people nowadays, the Irish people begin to be embraced well by the society, Deaf people still face the identity revision alternatives by hearing occupiers and "Uncle Tom" with the forced installment of cochlear implant surgery on our deaf babies and youngsters.
Irish people were forced off their lands. Deaf people were forced to assimilate much further to please and satisify hearing imperialists and ignorant ones like suppressing the use of sign language for greater language and intellectual development among deaf children.
Deaf people are often treated as total strangers in their own lands since the audist society were preoccupied with the normalization and assimilation of everyone else.
Why can't we simply celebrate the beauty of human diversity which make our lives more interesting and fruitful?
Note: This blogger is not an Irish or have any drop of Irish blood, but always feel soliditary with the Irish people to celebrate the annual St. Patrick's Day. Hopefully for the Irish community to return their soliditary with deaf people everywhere. :)
Happy St. Patrick's Day 2010!
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Re-telling Stories About Bernard Bragg in Ireland
In the celebration of St. Patrick's Day 2010, Deaf actor Bernard Bragg shared many exhilarated stories about his visit to Ireland in the 1970's.
From the NAD's deceased annual publication, Bernard Bragg recalled how he encountered the systematic division of deaf Irish people by hearing imperialists.
Bernard Bragg rode in the car with two deaf Irish hetro couple which he witnessed such an endless disputes between this deaf couple during the regular driving time. Bragg asked that couple why they keep bickering and fighting what was the right use for sign language, blah. The deaf couple were coming from the SAME town where they raised in. Why bicker over the use of
sign language whether they are right or not.
The deaf Irish couple replied "We were from different schools, one deaf school for the boys and another deaf school for the girls. That's how we always fight over the use of sign language what is right or not. "
Very common of many hearing and "Uncle Tom" deaf people resort to the stealth methods of splitting and weakening deaf people's strongholds on their own productive and festive lives like installing the codified system like "Signing Exact English", "Cued Speech" and other things.
Forced cochlear implant surgery upon deaf babies and youngsters without their permission or consent are another latest example of hearing imperialists and "Uncle Tom" deaf individuals, who usually turn our vibrant and culturally rich community into their own mirages and illusions.
Here are numerous excrept from Bernard Bragg autobiography book's "Lessons in Laughter" about his unforgettable visit to Ireland and Irish deaf people (check out page 157-161) -
http://books.google.com/books?id=PrPMTDdlm1AC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=bernard+bragg+and+ireland+visit&source=bl&ots=LAGh-HRA5D&sig=QKtaC19-cSFBO5i-yoae9S-lT34&hl=en&ei=jvWgS8qLE9OUtgfts93yBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
From the NAD's deceased annual publication, Bernard Bragg recalled how he encountered the systematic division of deaf Irish people by hearing imperialists.
Bernard Bragg rode in the car with two deaf Irish hetro couple which he witnessed such an endless disputes between this deaf couple during the regular driving time. Bragg asked that couple why they keep bickering and fighting what was the right use for sign language, blah. The deaf couple were coming from the SAME town where they raised in. Why bicker over the use of
sign language whether they are right or not.
The deaf Irish couple replied "We were from different schools, one deaf school for the boys and another deaf school for the girls. That's how we always fight over the use of sign language what is right or not. "
Very common of many hearing and "Uncle Tom" deaf people resort to the stealth methods of splitting and weakening deaf people's strongholds on their own productive and festive lives like installing the codified system like "Signing Exact English", "Cued Speech" and other things.
Forced cochlear implant surgery upon deaf babies and youngsters without their permission or consent are another latest example of hearing imperialists and "Uncle Tom" deaf individuals, who usually turn our vibrant and culturally rich community into their own mirages and illusions.
Here are numerous excrept from Bernard Bragg autobiography book's "Lessons in Laughter" about his unforgettable visit to Ireland and Irish deaf people (check out page 157-161) -
http://books.google.com/books?id=PrPMTDdlm1AC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=bernard+bragg+and+ireland+visit&source=bl&ots=LAGh-HRA5D&sig=QKtaC19-cSFBO5i-yoae9S-lT34&hl=en&ei=jvWgS8qLE9OUtgfts93yBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
ARE WE ALL HYPROCRITES???
After reading the AOL daily news feature on the revolutionary device for the visually deprived individuals. I said to myself "Aw, kinda great for someone to regain hir own vision ability with the use of technological marvel". This individual is a war veteran, who lost hir own vision during the battlefield duties. http://www.switched.com/2010/03/16/blind-british-soldier-regains-sight-with-his-tongue/?icid=mainaimdl4link7http%3A%2F%2Fwww.switched.com%2F2010%2F03%2F16%2Fblind-british-soldier-regains-sight-with-his-tongue%2F
Why didn't I object to the technological option for the blind people? That are much difference between forced cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies & youngsters AND optional desire to regain the lost vision and other body functions.
Technology should be not used to impose upon people against their own wills without any individuals' permission/consent. What about the GPS monitored ankle bands on people under the legal system to keep eyes on non-violent criminals? I would be for this kind of technology solution for some good reasons like the cost control purposes and pragmatic solutions which the forced cochlear implant surgery and device do not offer at all.
We must master and control the existence of technology, not let them control us. Forced cochlear implant surgery upon deaf babies and youngsters are all about the issue of medical ethics, identity alternative approaches, long-term health consequences, misguided educational applications without workable and effective methods of producing the well-balanced individual.
The new technological device to regain vision is "removable", not "permanently etched into the human body".
Will the young blind people accept the idea of forced surgery to drill the invasive method and leave the unpleasant sight of monstrous device on their face to remind the society at large what the freak they are? I don't think so!
That's what many deaf people object to the idea of cochlear implant forcibly imposed upon deaf babies and youngsters without embracing the functional and effective use of language for the visually-spatial individuals.
Respect and appreciate the existence of deaf people are the two-way street, not the one-way street by the hearing imperialists to re-define what we ought to be.
Every human beings have the right to control hir own destiny, not by someone else.
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Why didn't I object to the technological option for the blind people? That are much difference between forced cochlear implant surgery on deaf babies & youngsters AND optional desire to regain the lost vision and other body functions.
Technology should be not used to impose upon people against their own wills without any individuals' permission/consent. What about the GPS monitored ankle bands on people under the legal system to keep eyes on non-violent criminals? I would be for this kind of technology solution for some good reasons like the cost control purposes and pragmatic solutions which the forced cochlear implant surgery and device do not offer at all.
We must master and control the existence of technology, not let them control us. Forced cochlear implant surgery upon deaf babies and youngsters are all about the issue of medical ethics, identity alternative approaches, long-term health consequences, misguided educational applications without workable and effective methods of producing the well-balanced individual.
The new technological device to regain vision is "removable", not "permanently etched into the human body".
Will the young blind people accept the idea of forced surgery to drill the invasive method and leave the unpleasant sight of monstrous device on their face to remind the society at large what the freak they are? I don't think so!
That's what many deaf people object to the idea of cochlear implant forcibly imposed upon deaf babies and youngsters without embracing the functional and effective use of language for the visually-spatial individuals.
Respect and appreciate the existence of deaf people are the two-way street, not the one-way street by the hearing imperialists to re-define what we ought to be.
Every human beings have the right to control hir own destiny, not by someone else.
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
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