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Do Deaf People Have a Disability? - Coggle Diagram
Do Deaf People Have a Disability?
A disability is a limitation of function because of an impairment
Deaf people are limited in some functions because of an impairment of hearing
these meanings take deaf and disability to be physical attributes of individuals
how did the concept of disability arise and what purposes does it serve in our societies?
political and economic forces in the history of
the Western world have fought for control of the human body and its functions
1994 presidential aspirant Phil Gramm, a senator from Texas, confirmed this policy objective of separating the infirm from the indolent
With the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, much larger numbers of people were marginalized
To separate the able-bodied who could work in these settings from those with disabilities who could not and to regulate the health of children and adults, it was necessary to measure, evaluate, create hierarchies, and examine distributions about the norm
Moderate hearing loss (or unilateral loss) was not an obstacle to most employment, but severe bilateral loss was.
Over seventeen million Americans are considered disabled for work
Not only is it hard to tell disabilities from normal variation, but today’s disability may be tomorrow’s normal variation and vice versa
What then determines whether some form of human variation is a disability?
norms and the technologies of normalization
Thus we accept as normal human variation — and not disability — wide differences among people in height, but we consider very short people to have a disability
we accept differences in weight as normal, but gross obesity is a disability
we accept differences in weight as normal, but gross obesity is a disability
we accept differences in skin color as normal variation, but we consider albinos to have a disability
We all learn at different rates hat’s normal human variation but mental retardation is a disability.
Alcoholism has gone from moral flaw to disability
Homosexuality from moral flaw to disability to minority rights
Shortness became a disability, once a treatment was available, because if doctors administered a treatment, there must be a disorder to treat
The synthetic growth hormone has some nasty side effects and is expensive.