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From: James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org (James Womack)
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Subject: Re: Calling All deafies!
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Date: 7 May 91 16:25:15 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Ann, your advice to Tim is about the best that is available. Interesting
is that certain Alexander Graham Bellisms persist in rising their heads
yet again. A lot of what Tim describes fits earlier approaches to Deaf
Education that does the child much harm and little good. If Tim's account
is a certainty, it will be just one more of many similar accounts that
are popping up here and there in this presumed-to-be aged of enlightenment
regarding the education of Deaf children.

Oh well, nobody said the battle was going to be easy. I like your suggested
approach to trying to address the problem. A lot the things that Tim
describes is based on ignorance. Just lack of understanding about what
is actually being done. Educating the educators may well be the sole
way of removing this ignorance.

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