Studies of the deaf show that:
a. nearly all deaf people would join the hearing culture if they had a choice.
b. many deaf people would not join the hearing culture if they had a choice.
c. deaf people view themselves as having a serious disability.
d. most deaf people are excited about the new cochlear implant options available to deaf babies.
Question 2
In many cases, cochlear implants have not enabled deaf children to hear and understand, but have only confused them with new, unintelligible sounds. Given that implants are not very successful, deaf activists have criticized the medical practice of surgically inserting cochlear implants as:
a. a neutral medical technology.
b. multiculturalism on the part of the hearing culture.
c. ethnocentrism on the part of the hearing culture.
d. a form of cultural relativity.
Old people
Monstrous people from distant lands depicted in a fifteenth-century European woodcut.
Hearing and Reading Words
Creede, Colorado, circa 1890, a rough silver mining town that grew from 660 people in 1889 to over 1
Colossal head, Olmec culture.
Vocational interests seem to be established well before adulthood, and young people of all ages ...