Here is the link for the BIBI cohalition. Tom Humphries and Carrol Padden are really behinhd this.
<DeafBilingualCoalition.com - Home - Home> I think this will get you there.
The deaf children of hearing parents are being herded into the mainstream. So, we need to put the Deaf culture and sign language into the mainstream too. Otherwise, some of these kids never have anything but whatever oral skills they can master, and some of them can't master them very well, no matter how hard they practice.
Deaf history is not in the history books, so Deaf culture and history needs to be taught. If we don't do something, AG BELL will rule again. You know it was only about ten years ago or so that a universtity study found a gene that they said was responsible for deafness,, but to fix it would eradicate a lot of Deaf people. That is exactly what was happening back in AG Bell's days. They were actually trying to sterilize deaf people and to keep them from marrying or socializing. History could repeat itself if people don't learn from it, but how do they learn from it if it is not in the history books?
