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Deaf
history focuses, in large part, on a centuries-long struggle over ways to overcome a heritage of discrimination
by the hearing world and to provide
better opportunities for the hearing-impaired. Language lies at the center of this debate. While some endorse
sign language as the natural method of communication and education for the deaf,
others believe that deaf people should learn spoken and written language so they
can be mainstreamed with the rest of society. With the appearance of such recent technological
innovations as the cochlear implant, questions of community, language, integration
and identity continue to rage. |
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