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REACTION PAPER #3 OPTION A There have been very strong feelings throughout the Deaf Community about speech as a primary means of communication. Those who feel speech should be the primary method of communication for Deaf individuals usually consist of but are not limited to Hearing teachers, doctors, therapists, and Hearing parents. It is common for the medical model of deafness to encourage Deaf individuals and their families to use speech as the primary communication mode in order to function as much like a hearing person as possible. This ideal sends the message that deafness is a bad thing and being a hearing person is better. Deaf people do not feel the need to conform to Hearing ways in order to be considered normal by the hearing world. The Deaf Community does not consider deafness a disability as the medical model of deafness and a majority of hearing people do.
In order for a Deaf individual to rely solely on speech to communicate they must rely largely on amplification. Hearing aids or Cochlear implants are necessary for amplification. The majority of the Deaf Community has had a hard time accepting Cochlear implants in particular. These implants require extremely evasive surgery that can be done as early as under a year old. It is not hard to see why an optional surgery of this nature would cause controversy amongst Deaf and Hearing individuals alike. The Deaf Community has been more than open with their concerns about the surgery being performed at such a young age. This surgery has been done on children as young as under a year old. There are plenty of hearing people who find this type of extreme surgery in infants to be controversial as well. While the surgery amplifies the hearing of a Deaf person it is not a cure for Deafness. Cochlear implants have caused a wedge between those who chose to get them and those who do not. The Deaf Community feels that that the use of such implants will diminish Deaf Culture. Cochlear implants and hearing aids
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