Comments on: What Deafhood did for me, Part 1: The Hearing person that couldn’t hear http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41 "United we are strong; Divided, we are colonized" Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: MM http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-777 MM Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:55:03 +0000 http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-777 I thought I was fairly muted via deaf.read :) I thought you would see how little 'local' interest there actually is in deafhood here. Considering how confrontational I am toward it, you would have expected the fans to come out against me, it didn't happen. I saw them off pretty quick really, it does seem no-one has read it but me here ! I also thought you might see how differently Brit deaf debate things, we take no prisoners for sure, do you think we are too direct ? more disrespectful to each other than Americans ? Looking around a few 'major' deaf sites in the UK, there is no debate going on at all. As one contributor put it, until MM started going for the jugular of Mr Ladd, nobody knew who he was. I seemed to have given him the validity he couldn't give himself.. I thought I was fairly muted via deaf.read :) I thought you would see how little ‘local’ interest there actually is in deafhood here. Considering how confrontational I am toward it, you would have expected the fans to come out against me, it didn’t happen. I saw them off pretty quick really, it does seem no-one has read it but me here ! I also thought you might see how differently Brit deaf debate things, we take no prisoners for sure, do you think we are too direct ? more disrespectful to each other than Americans ? Looking around a few ‘major’ deaf sites in the UK, there is no debate going on at all. As one contributor put it, until MM started going for the jugular of Mr Ladd, nobody knew who he was. I seemed to have given him the validity he couldn’t give himself..

]]> By: DrDonG http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-771 DrDonG Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:29:28 +0000 http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-771 Thanks for the link, MM -- Glad to see I'm not the only one you're needling! ;-) Just curious, though... what did you want me to see that I haven't already seen you say before on this side of the Pond? Thanks for the link, MM — Glad to see I’m not the only one you’re needling! ;-)

Just curious, though… what did you want me to see that I haven’t already seen you say before on this side of the Pond?

]]> By: MM http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-767 MM Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:43:27 +0000 http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-767 Don, have you read here ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbouch/F2322274?thread=5661461&post=66634372#p66634372 Don, have you read here ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbouch/F2322274?thread=5661461&post=66634372#p66634372

]]> By: nacpac http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-745 nacpac Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:50:02 +0000 http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-745 Don, Thanks for sharing your story from birth up to entering MSSD. I have always wndered about your life journey and what made you the way you are. See, I am Deaf of Deaf parents and the road my parents took me was almost void of potholes. In other words, I had the most perfect upbringing as a deaf child. I need to be less judgemental of Deafhoodism as I have not experienced what it is like growing up without d/Deaf role models, withou sign language or ASL, and having to put up with hearing people's compliments about how great my hearing and speech were. The story about your grandmother's excitement about how well you could communicate and hear on the phone is a very good example. The only thing I am envious about you is that you had a swivel chair!!!! Ha Ha. Your experience as the only HOH child in public school is the very reason why I REFUSE to place my Deaf child in his neighborhood school despite the fact that my child has a cochlear implant and functions like a hard-of-hearing kid. My child is fully mainstreamed at a nearby school has d/h peers (both signing and oral). He has the best of both worlds. He is academically challenged in regular ed full time and has oppotunities to mingle with deaf peers during recess and lunch. This arrangement clearly does not prevent him from developing his aural/oral skills in case some of you hearing parents of deaf oral kids wonder. To ensure my child a healthy self-esteem I intend on keeping him in his Deaf Ghetto school! Sending him to a residential Deaf school is not an option. Do not get me wrong, there are deaf/hoh children even with CI who would be happier if at a state school for the deaf. Our decision warrants a lengthy explanation and it is not related to this vlog of yours. Well, anyway... thanks for sharing your story. Every parent of deaf/HOH child with or without CI needs to hear it. Don, Thanks for sharing your story from birth up to entering MSSD. I have always wndered about your life journey and what made you the way you are. See, I am Deaf of Deaf parents and the road my parents took me was almost void of potholes. In other words, I had the most perfect upbringing as a deaf child. I need to be less judgemental of Deafhoodism as I have not experienced what it is like growing up without d/Deaf role models, withou sign language or ASL, and having to put up with hearing people’s compliments about how great my hearing and speech were. The story about your grandmother’s excitement about how well you could communicate and hear on the phone is a very good example. The only thing I am envious about you is that you had a swivel chair!!!! Ha Ha.

Your experience as the only HOH child in public school is the very reason why I REFUSE to place my Deaf child in his neighborhood school despite the fact that my child has a cochlear implant and functions like a hard-of-hearing kid. My child is fully mainstreamed at a nearby school has d/h peers (both signing and oral). He has the best of both worlds. He is academically challenged in regular ed full time and has oppotunities to mingle with deaf peers during recess and lunch. This arrangement clearly does not prevent him from developing his aural/oral skills in case some of you hearing parents of deaf oral kids wonder.

To ensure my child a healthy self-esteem I intend on keeping him in his Deaf Ghetto school! Sending him to a residential Deaf school is not an option. Do not get me wrong, there are deaf/hoh children even with CI who would be happier if at a state school for the deaf. Our decision warrants a lengthy explanation and it is not related to this vlog of yours.

Well, anyway… thanks for sharing your story. Every parent of deaf/HOH child with or without CI needs to hear it.

]]> By: MM http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-731 MM Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:38:18 +0000 http://www.deafhooddiscourses.com/?p=41#comment-731 I think I'll blog what deafhood hasn't done for me.... or for deaf culture. I think I’ll blog what deafhood hasn’t done for me…. or for deaf culture.

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