Designing A Hearing Baby

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Overall, the sad fact is that the main reason for implanting a deaf child is that a medical view of deafness defines the child. Hearing parents of deaf children may have very little knowledge of deafness and, therefore, may see their child as being broken. Instead of fostering the child's natural abilities and allowing them to acquire the language that is natural to him/her, the parent may want to surgically alter the child to bring a sense of "normal" into the child's life. The parent is looking at what would be best for the family and society in the way of interaction instead of acknowledging the fact that the child may have individual needs and desires that are separate from societies ideals. When a parent starts seeing a child as an anomaly instead of a person, the child ultimately suffers. This paragraph was being written By Shelli Delost and Sarah Lashley.
The Cochlear Implant Controversy http://www.drury.edu/multinl/story.cfm?ID=2442&NLID=166

The Evident of Deaf Diverse DESIRABLE People

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I asked Deaf Diverse People if they wanted to shrink the Deaf community. They said.... Wait a minute... You can go into my vlog and watch a brief documentary film to find out what were their answers.

MY OPINIONS NOT DBC'S/WHO WILL SPEAK UP FOR DEAF CHILDREN/ ARE DEAF CHILDREN UNDESIRABLE?

MY OPINIONS NOT DBC'S:

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WHO WILL SPEAK UP FOR DEAF CHILDREN:

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After I watched a video called: "Journey To Sound," it hit me hard that the medical community really thinks that Deaf babies are undesirable and need to be fixed by inserting cochlear implants in order to try to make them hearing children. I watched the children's behavior, how they cried, clammed up, and were despondent, then I asked myself, “Who will speak up for Deaf children?”

ARE DEAF BABIES UNDESIRABLE?

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Here is a letter of AGBELL: Eugenics http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/index2.html?tag=432/
I read this letter which was written by Alexander G. Bell’s and I was like, wow, that’s how he thought of us as Deaf people as an UNDESIRABLE GROUP. Yet, the A.G.BELL organization is still proud of itself, as an organization, and they continue to perpetuate myths about A.G.BELL himself. They are aware of what was happening in Deaf history and what he did to the Deaf community. How are we supposed to feel as Deaf people when people tell us that we are a UNDESIRABLE and we are NOT MEANT to be on earth because we are Deaf people? This letter indicated that we, Deaf people, are not acceptable as being a DESIRABLE group to live on this earth. There are many beautiful intelligent Deaf-SIGNING children and adults. Do we want to wipe them out and turn them into something that they are not?

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