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Subject: Re: Mainstreaming
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Date: 21 Mar 91 05:18:48 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 TS> WE do not have a communcation disorder.

 TS> Rather anyone that does not  know sign language that happens to
 TS> encounter a group of deaf people,  THOSE are the ones with the
 TS> communncaton disorder

Uhu - do you notice the logical error?

If you say that people who do not know sign language have a
communications disorder in a group of deaf peoplem, then it
naturally follows that someone that does not know English has a
communications disorder in a group of hearing people.

The simple truth is that the term "communications disorder" is
relative, like so much else.

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