part three of critique...as promised to the poster who longs to read all my stuff and more....
here we are with alex in the midst of being tagged an d measured, and marked as normal abnormal, acceptable and not..the goal here is normalization and technological will be brought to bare on alex to form him into a certain mould for societies sake...weather that actually helps alex in his life is a footnote...
creep mother said:
(7)A few months later we got a further unwelcome surprise: All of the hearing in Alex’s right ear was gone. He was now profoundly deaf in that ear. We had discovered in the intervening months that in addition to a congenital deformity of the inner ear called Mondini dysplasia, he had a progressive condition called Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct (EVA). That meant a bang on the head or even a sudden change in pressure could cause further loss of hearing. It seemed likely to be only a matter of time before the left ear followed the right.
only a matter of time.....i see....
creep mother said:
(8)Suddenly Alex was a candidate for a cochlear implant. When we consulted a surgeon, he clipped several CT scan images of our son’s head up on the light board and tapped a file containing reports of Alex’s latest hearing tests and speech/language evaluations, which still put him very near the bottom compared to other children his age: He was in the sixth percentile for what he could understand and the eighth for what he could say.
so suddenly i see..
creep mother said:
(9)He is not getting what he needs from the hearing aids. His language is not developing the way we’d like,” the doctor said. Then he turned and looked directly at us. “We should implant him before he turns three.”
alex would of been developing perfectly in sign if his creep mother would of took the time to explore it, as she did with the white coats...
now to the good stuff...
the cochlear countdown in bold leads us further down the assimilation justification piece..
creep mother said:
(10)A deadline? So there was now a countdown clock to spoken language ticking away in Alex’s head? What would happen when it reached zero? Alex’s third birthday was only a few months away.
classic example of manipulating scared parents into a corral choice option, what choice?
only one option is ever given to this women...
the option that benefits the white coats the most paid services...
creep mother said:
(11)As the doctor explained that the age of three marked a critical juncture in the development of language, I began to truly understand that we were not just talking about Alex’s ears. We were talking about his brain.
this is complete false..how it is presented to this mother is leaving out the FACT that since his birth language was available to alex, in sign, every deaf baby and child will sign naturally as alex most certainly was in his home, he was ignored, and thus is assembly lined and pushed into the assimilation engine of the combined system... to make him move his beak and speakie like a hearie...regardless of his emotional well being......
now we have this
creep mother said:
(12)When they were approved for adults in 1984 and children six years later, cochlear implants were the first device to partially restore a missing sense
what she fails to mention here is the fda approval stated broadly that "the device allows many ci recipients to detect environmental sounds, and conversational speech at comfortable listening levels, and that for some patients the device may aid in lip reading no more then that. there was certainly no evidence that a deaf person could understand speech with out lipreading"
so much for shitting gold and miracles...
in france doctor chouard was already implanting children, against medical ethics and his colleagues outrage...with the policy of
creep frenchie doc said:
an implanted child must leave the deaf school he previously attended to be placed in a school for normal children in an environment of normal speech and hearing"
note how well or not the child was actually doing in the Deaf school is irrelevant, nor is the fact the child is already signing in a sign language...instead the child has to be removed from his environment, removed from those he can communicate with in his natural langauge, and placed with those who do not share his language or culture..that is a classic example of what is known as colonialism.
to the dismay of the combined system and the professionals, Deaf were not falling on their knees begging to be implanted nor long lineups of us were around the corners of docs offering the drill...
this was not lost on them and their corporate sponsors where worried...and thus studies were undertaken to try to push for more numbers allowed and to have the goal posts changed to net more deaf children.
further and in regards to moving the goal posts, a british study in 1986, 'who might be suitable for CI and other procedures", british journal of audiology
brit study to move the goalposts said:
if CI was limited to post lingually deafened adults(18 to 65 years of age), with a hearing loss of at least one hundred decibels, then the number of possible implantees was 12,056, if the hearing loss threshold was lowered, to 90 decibels then the number rose to 22,490, but if the prelingual deaf and the age limit dropped then the number of potential Ci candidates shot up to more then 64,000
this study and other like it occurred very close to the time when the push against Deaf wishes and that AGAINST the vast majority of Deaf wishes where ignored and steamrolled in the pursuit of corporate earnings at the expense of deaf children...
as well see..
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