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The
Deaf-hearing person:
There is an element of this
person in all deaf workers. There has to be. It has been in-built. Whether the root is in a hearing family who
demanded certain behaviour or whether it was the realisation that school success was only
possible by becoming most like hearing people, the relations at work mean that there has
to be a switch. Wendy Daunt described this
at a first meeting of the Society. This
switch identifies the person with whom you are interacting and then switches on to a
specific modality. Unfortunately, this leads
to hearing behaviour with hearing people and deaf behaviour with deaf people. Fine, except that no change occurs in the system. This allows the hearing people to continue to
function as they had before, satisfied that they have their deaf worker. The deaf patients
have to have their problems translated into hearing terms.
The description of the problems has to be fitted into hearing terminology
and hearing therapeutic methods. This gives
neither the understanding to hearing professionals nor does it offer a realistic chance of
improvement to the deaf person. |
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