All we know is that she is deaf, and her father, Benjamin, is one of Europe’s most powerful champions of oralism, the belief that deaf people can be taught to speak. Oralism is sweeping through late 19th-century Europe, threatening to overturn the lives of deaf people, and making sign language redundant. David Archer, a young […]
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Why your remote doesn’t have a dumb button
What is dumb, and what is mute? Earlier this year, Deaf Victoria asked journalists not to use the expression “deaf-mute” to describe deaf people who … Read On...