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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:58:45 -0400
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- From: Miriam Clifford <DMIMI@ECSVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Slang, fluency and translation
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- Randy, you have used "deaf and hard of hearing" as though they are synonymous.
- They are not. Very few hard of hearing people, children or adult, use or
- need, or want to use ASL. Even if the hearing impairment is very severe,
- a hard of hearing person is likely to have or be able to learn speech if,
- he/she does not already communicate oral/aurally. I have not intention of
- getting into the argument about oral versus sign for deaf/Deaf people,
- especially for pre-lingually deaf people, but do let's be a little more
- careful with terminology.
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- dmimi@ecsvax.uncecs.edu dmimi@ecsvax.bitnet
- Miriam (Mimi) Clifford; 2535 Sevier St, Durham, NC 27705; 919-489-4821
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