... Disability Act (ADA). According to Gallaudet University Library, there are about 38 million people who are deaf in the U.S. Founder editor of the ifeminist.com, Wendy McElroy, in Victims from Birth, talks about two deaf lesbian parents who believe that deafness is not a disability but a culture. They select their sperm donor on the basis of his family history of deafness in order to ... deliver a deaf baby, Gauvin Hughes McCullough. He is "successfully " born deaf and is living without hearing aid. Neuroethicist, Neil Levy, PhD, in "Deafness ... , culture, and choice ", discusses the si...

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... by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). VRS enables people who communicate via ASL to communicate with people who use an average telephone. This is accomplished by a video connection that the Deaf person establishes with a VRS communication assistant (CA) who is typically a qualified sign language interpreter, and they communicate to each other in signed conversation. The CA then places a telephone call ... to alert the user of potentially dangerous situations, such as fire alarms. It was interesting to learn that in Washington, D.C. there is a university dedicated entirely to p...

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... , and rest stops. Now, public phones as well as cellular phones can access TTY recipients. The TTY was a very important invention in the deaf community; it allowed them to talk through the phone without the help of someone else. Today they have come along way and as technology gets ... certain steps before it could actually be for real. In 1971, The French Chef became the very first television program that was accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers. A company called NCI partnered with an ITT Corporation in 1989 to develop the first caption-decoding microchip, which could ... to ...

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... how to help them adapt and assimilate to a world of people with the ability to hear and see. The choice of being blind or being deaf would be rather easy, once one realizes that, "The real problem with blindness is not the lack of eyesight. The real problem is the ... are seen as outcasts, an abnormality of nature; incapable of functioning within humanity. However, throughout the years the deaf community has created its own language, enabling them to communicate within their own culture and with a select group of hearing outsiders. Although American Sign Language (ASL) has proved itself a...

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