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Why won’t they accept help?A final point which comes as a big shock to hearing and to deaf people working with deaf children or with other deaf people. Why is it that the oppressed person does not readily accept the help? And why is it that the deaf person does not become less oppressed because the hearing person informs him or her about the situation. Helping is ineffective in this direct way. Co-operation is more important. The deaf person or deaf child will begin to develop their own reality and it is this which must be achieved. Freire's work and writings are quite shocking and thought-provoking. Deaf people still struggle in his view because it is the oppressor who is changing and not the oppressed. Only when the oppressed begin to aspire to their own culture and language, will real change occur. So for deaf people it is not at all about access, but much more about becoming confident is setting up their own society and norms; their own social system. |
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