While the Cleveland Clinic is an outstanding institution on the cutting edge of research, experimental treatments for many, many diseases, there are way too many offensive statements in the link. A prime example of the medical model of deafness. The language used has the potential to set deaf rights back 100 years.:roll: In fact, I will be emailing them, and telling them that they need to engage in some cultural awareness training and then re-write the statement so as to be less offensive.