[stylist] question

[Barbara Hammel]

As much as she may be disliked, Helen Keller did say once that to be blind 
was to be cut off from things but to be deaf was to be cut off from people. 
As  blind folks, we are only cut off from the things that the sighted world 
find exceedingly important.  As a deaf person, one is in the world alone 
unless he wants to read lips or communicate via written word.  The deaf 
really have no choice but to band together.  Who else can speak their 
"language"?  I wish everyone were required to at least learn to finger spell 
in school.  There is no reason why, in the advanced culture that we live, 
that deaf folks should have to feel the need to band together.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:18 AM
To: "'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] question

> Jim:
>
> What you wrote made me wonder about something.  In academic circles, for
> rehab of the blind, education of the blind, blind studies, and so on, are
> there many blind researchers and professors?
>
> I am very fearful that the answer may be no.
>
> The only thing I know is that I was truly shocked to learn that the
> Minnesota school for the blind has only one fully blind teacher.  One!
> Compare this to the school for the deaf, where eighty percent of the staff
> is deaf, all the way from administration down to houseparents.
>
> The academic journals on deafness, ASL, Deaf education, and so on, all are
> edited by Deaf scholars and the great majority of contributors, the
> professors and such, are Deaf.
>
> True, mainstreaming is prevalent, but this is most often a problem with
> school districts wanting to keep Deaf students because they're cash cows.
> They promise they'll provide all the resources blah blah.  But it's crap.
>
> Still, Deaf schools are going strong and there are many large Deaf 
> programs
> within public schools, so there's a good social critical mass and also 
> Deaf
> teachers there.  All the accredition programs, the teacher training 
> programs
> for Deaf education, etc. all are run by Deaf people.
>
> I hope that blind people run everything, too.  If that's not the case, 
> that
> needs to change--or am I wrong to think that would be a good thing?
>
> John
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