Language Policies in Deaf Education
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1994
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Abstract
Deaf children in America are not being educated. Misinformed or
uninformed educators have kept deaf children from achieving a complete and
satisfactory education through the use of inappropriate or inadequate language
policies. Deafness has characteristically been treated by doctors and by educators as a
handicap, as a disability, as a condition to be treated, and if possible to cure, or at
least hide, by the teaching of speech. For the Deaf community, deafness is a way of
life, a unique culture, a language community. By denying deaf children the use of
American Sign Language, and by failing to teach English literacy skills, educators are
denying them a language, a culture, and an education.