[lit-ideas] Re: "Rejecting" deafness
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:40:01 -0700
> There's some fairly nasty ignorance running around on the issue of
> "rejecting" deafness.
ck:
Has anyone been following the Gallaudet U. oral/signing controversy, re
rejecting deafness?
Related...There's a very good, relatively recent documentary about Deaf
Culture, with a focus on cochlear implants (considered by some to be the
ultimate rejection of deafness). I'm not sure of the film's name...Is it
_Sound and Fury_? Maybe _Soundings_? Come on, what's the name? I recommended
it here once before.
A note on ASL: Learning how to read any language is difficult, apparently,
if one relies on ASL, or some other signing language, to the exclusion of
lip-reading (oralism). ASL is more of an affective than a cognitive
language; it's closer to a "whole language" than one with Indo-European
roots. (Ever watch a translating signer carefully? It's not unlike miming,
or acting.) But without the automatic subject-verb-object connection,
reading is a bear.
Carol
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