Kalalau’s Korner: THE RIPPLE EFFECT: Deaf Mississippi
I like the opening lines, short, succient and provides a an overview of the issue and a history of sorts.. all in one paragraph.
Few people change our fundamental view of the Deaf world: Socrates, Plato, L’Epee, Sicard, Gallaudet, Clerc, Verditz, Stokoe, a handful of others. It is impossible to imagine our lives without them, for they got people thinking about the thinkable: Deaf people have American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate information and knowledge to make new meanings. Nothing could be simpler, nothing more natural and judging from the recent incident at Mississippi School for the Deaf, nothing harder to achieve.
Read on…
For background information on the incident, click here.
