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From: Tim.Smith@f429.n275.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Smith)
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Subject: Re: Mainstreaming
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Date: 12 Mar 91 05:28:48 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Bull... being deaf is NOT a communcation disorder.
THAT is precisely what the hearing world which view us through the
pathological point of view want us to think.
Calling the deaf "People with communncation disorder" is about the
equlivent to calling a non english speaking Spanish man the same.
They simply know a different language.
WE do not have a communcation disorder.  Rather anyone that does not
know sign language that happens to encounter a group of deaf people,
THOSE are the ones with the communncaton disorder- if we follow what you
said.

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