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browneyed girl’s posts are always engaging, entertaining and.. well, she is well-informed and simply writes well. I like her essays. :)
Her post on cochlear implants is an example.
While a CI child may never be exposed to deaf culture when he’s younger, I would not point the finger at CI in this case; plenty of deaf children are kept isolated from deaf culture that never had CI’s (I am but one of many, many examples). The real issue is that 90% of deaf children have hearing parents. Such parents probably have no idea of deafness at all, have never dealt with anyone deaf until their own child. Parents do want the best for their children, but out of ignorance and well meaning determinations for their child to be as "normal" as possible.
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