Gallaudet president should remember the culturally deaf
Trouble a-brewing at the bastion of Deaf culture and the symbol of Deaf pride - Gallaudet University, which is the world’s only university catering to the deaf/Deaf.
Signing Exact English vs. ASL - the new battleground?
Having been profoundly deaf since birth as well as a parent of a deaf child, I am familiar with issues of unintentional and intentional discrimination that are unique to a group of Americans and international citizens who are deaf. My peers and I are used to being treated a little bit differently.
The recent protests at Gallaudet University have brought these underlying issues to the forefront. The very same antagonistic attitudes about a particular group of deaf people demonstrated by administrators of Gallaudet University are vividly present in the American mainstream as well as the world.
