It's sad. As I said in a previous post, it may start with changing how Dr's and other professionals who work with the deaf perceive them. The only way to do that is to force them to take courses in deaf culture and history as part of their currculi. Even that probably doesn't go far enough, but it would be a start. We may not be able to stop the medicalization, but, lets give our future Dr's, SLP's, and Audis something to THINK about! As it stands now, as you well know, they look at being deaf as something to "fix" ....and that's it. "The ears are defective, so we have to fix that.", giving NO thought to what happens AFTER.
