Very few posts are a must-read, and information overload is an all too real phenomenon today.
So when i say this post is essential reading for all working people who has to deal with hearing loss at the workplace (besides overbearing colleagues, work overload and gastric pains), it’s a big deal.
Dear colleagues
It’s a difficult thing to do but in the interest of our working together, I had better be open about things.
Written by a philosophy major, it shows - I got, ahem, a little lost somewhere near the last third of the essay. But it’s worth a read nevertheless, the comprehensible parts anyway. 8-)
Is the word deaf a label? How does it denote a person? Today, in this post-structural age, labels are everything. We use labels everyday, we speak in labels and we encounter labels everywhere. Sometimes we use labels for convenience, as shorthand for complicated concepts. Other times labels are used in technical vocabulary, to marginalize error. So, we identify ourselves with labels.
Get free blog up and running in minutes with Blogsome
Theme designed by Jay of onefinejay.com