James.Womack@f14.n300.z1.fidonet.org (James Womack) (03/15/91)
Index Number: 13928
[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
Your rebuke is well-taken. However, I did not intend to imply thatwe
deafies are defective communicatively. Itis just one of the academic
terms frequently used to refer to an aspect of deafness. By communicative
disorder, I was focusing more on the clinical aspect of deafness. By
shutting out the hearing whichis the main tool of most people for
purposes, the deaf are otside of the main body of communication medium.
Inthat sense only did I mean communicative disoredr. Not that we are
defects, sub-human etc. My apologies anyway if it seemed otherwise.
Now about that "bull", make mine well done and pass the A-1 please.
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