The identity of the deaf as disabled is not a creation of the Deaf/deaf themselves, but of the wider hearing society as is a direct result of the medaclized view of deafness as being defined as lack of auditory function. This places it in the category of pathology, and inherent in it that classification is the need to be corrected. Deaf Culture promotes a view of deaf people as not incomplete or pathological hearing people, but as a cultural and linguisitc minority that are complete and whole despite the difference in auditory function from the majority. It is the wider hearing society that has created both the concept of the deaaf as disabled, and then through policy and educational procedure, managed to keep them in their marginalized status.
