LAST EDITED ON 07-08-12 AT 09:27 PM (EST)

>Just out of curiosity, is there any technology or medical
>procedure that the deaf community that you represent would
>acceptably bestow hearing to a deaf person?

In other words, accept that there is something broken with a deaf person (a category which includes both my wife and I) and that it needs to be fixed?

Whatever happened to accepting people for who they are and allowing them to flourish as they are? Not a single learner in my class wants to change who they are. Neither of the two learners who are in a wheelchair want to change who they are - both want to use their writing skills to change society's perceptions of who they are, not as people who need to be fixed but instead as human beings who are a member of society like everyone else.

I'm not sure if you were around back then, but several posters left this site because they did not feel that certain others were respecting that they were gay, or disabled as in the case of one lass. We lost a few highly intelligent, well spoken posters because of society's perceptions.