When I say deaf, I mean zero hearing and cant speak. Can only communicated through signing.
Does mainstream society reduce expectations of a deaf person to the same level as a retarded person? where society doesnt think a deaf person is capable be sucessfull in a challeging career. That a deaf person is capable of janitorial work or washing dishes?
The reason I ask is, could this be the motivation of parents and professionals to make the deaf, oral at all costs?