Pretending to be deaf....

Deafness causes both to degrade.

Or could I be goin' deaf?

I become convinced that deafness was a culture and that the people in the deaf world who said,

Brain technologies should be presented as one option, but not the only solution, for, say, paralysis or deafness.

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Special educational programmes for deaf students are planned for a period of 11 years to acquire general primary education, three years being planned to obtain general secondary education.

Some of them listen to you But can you make the deaf hear who do not understand a thing ?

And among them are some who listen to you so will you make the deaf hear even if they do not have any sense ?

And some of them give ear to thee what , wilt thou make the deaf to hear , though they understand not ?

And of them are some who hearken unto thee , so canst thou make the deaf hear , even though they apprehend not ?

And among them are some who listen to you , but can you make the deaf to hear , even though they apprehend not ?

And among them are those who listen to you . But can you make the deaf hear , even though they do not understand ?

Of them some seem to give heed to you will you , then , make the deaf hear even though they understand nothing ?

And of them are some who listen unto thee . But canst thou make the deaf to hear even though they apprehend not ?

There are some of them who prick up their ears at you . But can you make the deaf hear even if they do not exercise their reason ?

Some of them listen to you . But can you make the deaf hear you , even though they cannot understand ?

And among them are those who listen to you . But can you cause the deaf to hear , although they will not use reason ?

Some of them will listen to you , but are you supposed to make the deaf hear even if they have no understanding ?

And there are those of them who hear you , but can you make the deaf to hear though they will not understand ?

Some of them appear to be listening to you but can you make the deaf hear , incapable as they are of understanding ?

Among them are some who ( pretend to ) listen to thee But canst thou make the deaf to hear , even though they are without understanding ?

For example, many in the deaf community have rejected cochlear implants, because they do not regard deafness as a disability that needs to be corrected, but as a part of their life and cultural identity.

Nevertheless, Anita Silvers, a philosopher at San Francisco State University and a disability scholar and activist, has described such treatments as tyranny of the normal, aimed at adjusting the deaf to a world designed by the hearing, ultimately implying the inferiority of deafness.