Deaf rights movement

The method is intended to make it easier for deaf children to integrate into hearing communities, but the benefits of learning in such an environment are disputed.

[1] Many teachers in these schools were women, because according to PBS and the research done for the film Through Deaf Eyes, they were better at instructing due to the patience it took to do something repetitively.

[3] Gallaudet University is responsible for expanding services and education for deaf individuals in developing countries around the world, as well as in the United States.

The ADA took the important principles in these laws and extended them to the broad mainstream of Americans public life.

It prohibits discrimination in almost every aspect of society, meaning one needs a legitimate reason to not hire someone with a disability.

There was another bill passed to help solve this problem called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

[6] Within the Deaf community, there is strong opposition to the use of cochlear implants and sometimes also hearing aids and similar technologies.

[7] Others argue that this technology also threatens the continued existence of Deaf culture, but Kathryn Woodcock argues that it is a greater threat to Deaf culture to reject prospective members just because they used to hear, because their parents chose an implant for them, because they find environmental sound useful, etc.

still insists that a child not be fitted with a cochlear implant until old enough to decide for themselves because the affects are irreversible and could cause a lifetime of pain, regret, and hatred/isolation.