thank for posting.
this is a classic piece of propaganda and a fun read..pay close attention..in here you will find fact and fiction, meshed to suit a given ideological construct that of phono-centric colonialism in the guese of a caring helpless mother just wanting to help her son..bu tit reads judging by the language used very different to more discerning eyes
creep mother" said:
It was such a daunting task that most of the leading auditory neurophysiologists in the 1960s and 1970s, when the idea was first explored in the United States, were convinced cochlear implants would never work. It took decades of work by teams of determined (even stubborn) researchers in the United States, Australia and Europe to solve the considerable engineering problems involved as well as the thorniest challenge: designing a processing program that worked well enough to allow users to discriminate speech. When they finally succeeded on that front, the difference was plain from the start
we can start here, its as good as any, again
the bolded language here used was chosen wisely for the effects these words have on readers, daunting, leading, determined, succeeded on that front, all are words that convey a certain emotional response of a struggle, with words to set a line for authority ie leading
there is another way to right this history...
most of those people she states were not convinced were horrified at human experiments for cochlear implants, that were a violation of medical ethics. the determined researches were the ones that simply broke the ethical boundaries regardless of their peers objections, even going to the press to spread false information in the hopes to gain funds for out of bounds work. they covered up and swept under the rug childrens deaths due to CI, while along the way peddling a cure and a miracle of biblical proportions to new parents facing the many headed hydra of the oralist assimilation machine.
creep mother" said:
the fact that technology had been invented that could help the deaf hear seemed “a miracle of biblical proportions.”
this is hardly a fact, given the vast difference in actual results, if we accept this as fact then, facts are as nebulous as falsehoods then, here you have the mask of benevolence rearing its head ...
the miracle and a biblical one too,in religious language for a product CI, and its promised salvation a miracle.
creep mother" said:
Many in Deaf culture didn’t agree.
here you have a bald face lie,
its the majority,
creep mother" said:
As I began to investigate what a cochlear implant would mean for Alex, I spent a lot of time searching the Internet, and reading books and articles. I was disturbed by the depth of the divide I perceived in the deaf and hard of hearing community.
above she uses Deaf culture, yet here she uses deaf and hard of hearing community, ill take her at her word and she spent allot of time researching online then i will assume she knows what she did here...in dismissing the majority that do not see CI as a miracle of biblical proportions,
creep mother" said:
There seemed to be a long history of disagreement over spoken versus visual language, and between those who saw deafness as a medical condition and those who saw it as an identity. The harshest words and the bitterest battles had come in the 1990s with the advent of the cochlear implant.
disagreement is here a polite euphemism for what is termed phoncentric colonialism and assimilation,
now below we have some neat propaganda tricks....pay close attention..they steal plays from goebbels play book. so now in order to set the facade of impartiality and objectivity the author who is clearly not objective and is a mother of a violated ci implanted child quotes form a a well received work.
creep mother" said:
They called that world Deaf culture in their influential 1988 book Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture. The capital “D” distinguished those who were culturally deaf from those who were audiologically deaf. “The traditional way of writing about Deaf people is to focus on the fact of their condition — that they do not hear — and to interpret all other aspects of their lives as consequences of this fact,” Padden and Humphries wrote. “Our goal . . is to write about Deaf people in a new and different way. . . Thinking about the linguistic richness uncovered in [work on sign language] has made us realize that the language has developed through the generations as part of an equally rich cultural heritage. It is this heritage — the culture of Deaf people — that we want to begin to portray.”
this is true...
creep mother" said:
In this new way of thinking, deafness was not a disability but a difference. With new pride and confidence, and new respect for their own language, American Sign Language, the deaf community began to make itself heard. At Gallaudet University in 1988, students rose up to protest the appointment of a hearing president — and won. In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act ushered in new accommodations that made operating in the hearing world far easier. And technological revolutions like the spread of computers and the use of e-mail meant that a deaf person who once might have had to drive an hour to deliver a message to a friend in person (not knowing before setting out if the friend was even home), could now send that message in seconds from a keyboard.
this is also true but ada also was a trojan horse..
creep mother" said:
The Deaf view was that late-deafened adults were old enough to understand their choice, had not grown up in Deaf culture, and already had spoken language. Young children who had been born deaf were different. The assumption was that cochlear implants would remove children from the Deaf world, thereby threatening the survival of that world.
now we have misleads, and slight of hands....on the author's part..
this is not an assumption we have seen and experienced what has occurred on a vast scale since pre lingual implantation has begun, , we have it documented, in allot of works, i have also cited a number of them on this board, plenty more.
creep mother" said:
That led to complaints about “genocide” and the eradication of a minority group.
again dismissals, now "genocide" is in quotes, the proper term though is ethnocide.
not just complaints leading academics such as harlan lane who sits on the academie francaise also told the truth of it. he is hearie, and his work the mask of benevolence is a must read even for CI cultists..enjoy further and more important ourselves, we objected we resisted we were stream rolled.
creep mother" said:
The Deaf community felt ignored by the medical and scientific supporters of cochlear implants;
the above is classic propaganda..look close...
if only they would of ignored us, damn....instead no we felt and feel violated, we weren't just ignored, after we made known our opposition we were steamrolled...big difference.
the use of medical and scientific are here on purpose, misleading, its the medical-pedagogo, establishment, the combined system, the "science" supporters actually what ever she means by this were and are heavy stake holder in the very companies who implant.
creep mother" said:
many believed deaf children should have the opportunity to make the choice for themselves once they were old enough; still others felt the implant should be outlawed entirely. Tellingly, the ASL sign developed for “cochlear implant” was two fingers stabbed into the neck, vampire-style
again bald face LIE
not many
that is majority of Deaf,!! that's still a sign we use for it, others are around but that's one sign yes.
creep mother" said:
By the time Alex was born, children were succeeding in developing language with cochlear implants in ever greater numbers
THIS IS UTTER RBULLSHIT!
the fact is sign could've been always acquired there is no "a" in her sentence which would be a fact, instead it implies spoken language is language when in FACT its only one mode of language NOT language, the stars succeed for a variety of reasons, CI isnt the primary one..
creep mother" said:
I never wanted us not to be able to communicate. Even if Alex might never need ASL, he might like to know it. And he might someday feel a need to know more deaf people. In the beginning, we had said that Alex would learn ASL, as a second language. And we’d meant it
as good propaganda does now she again sets a misleading tone of impartiality and objectivity...yet the language again is telling alex needed sign language from the day he was born, as every deaf baby does!! NOT might someday!!!!
alex is caught in the snares of the oralist assimilation grind machine...thus socializing with Deaf in his mothers words maybe be someday...that means not today...
so so so so much more levels of good stuff here...
when i return.