Chapter 17: Do Deaf People Have a Disability?

Disability

Limitation of function due to an impairment

Deaf people are not disabiled

Physical attributes

Treatment led to disability

Fixing a Deaf person

Cochlear implant

Hearing aid

weightloss surgery

growth hormones

Deaf

"Deafness is the most disabaling disability"

Cost too much money for access

Reduced rates of choices

Values being Deaf and have no implications of loss

Not something you have, label you acquire

Classification of physical, behavioral, or mental difference from the norm that is caused biologically

Normal

Nothing was a disability until something is normal

Normal one day, disability the next

Short people, grossly obese, albinos are not normal so labeled as disabeled