Having committed to a week of silence to demonstrate solidarity with the UK’s Deaf sign language users, Professor Graham Turner has made it to Thursday without a squeak. Will everyone else’s luck run out before the weekend?
Imagine you’re completely blind. Can you do that? It’s not too difficult: you start by closing your eyes…
Now imagine you’re stone deaf. Not just a wee bit fuzzy round the edges, like your granddad or when you come out of a loud gig. Deaf as a post.
You can’t, can you? We don’t have ear-lids. You can’t switch your hearing off, no matter how hard you try.
This is at the root of the hearing world’s inability to comprehend what Deaf people are on about. Three key things follow from being Deaf.
One, everything the hearing world takes for granted about receive incoming information from the world through hearing, doesn’t apply. I’m…
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