"Man Plant" is one of the most difficult chapters and I think that raises the tone of the debate by reflecting on the many attitudes that sometimes the medicine and education have on the people sensory deficits.
In this chapter, her mother says of a possible "miraculous intervention" that transforms the deaf in hearing: the cochlear implant. Although touted as a remedy highly valuable, is but a machine, yet another form of violence against children deaf. There is nothing that proved beneficial to emphasize that remedy, omitting the severity of organic and psychological consequences that some recipients of the system complain. This is a major symbolic step in which metaphorical Emmanuelle turns to the ladies of the system: "As usual, she waves the flag of science, of progress. But it ignores the human being deaf is talking about. His psychology, its culture. Ignore the future of the little deaf seeking to amend. " " We are a minority of profound deafness at birth. With a particular culture, a particular language. Doctors, researchers, all those who want to make us
the hearing as others send me into a rage. Becoming deaf means destroying our identity. Will that tuttto children at birth are no longer "deaf" means wanting a perfect world ... Why not accept the imperfections of others? Everybody has. "
She, through her words, underscores the fact that the aid is to be reserved for those who have lost hearing throughout life, because they are aware of the value of their loss, but you must observe the children born deaf, granting them the freedom to choose which of the two worlds belong. Sign Language has a history marked by battles fought so long and is claimed to be recognized. Subsequently, however
in Europe has been denigrated as an "ape language", while overseas it has developed and took shape through the establishment of schools that have ensured the spread.
"So the children have been forced to articulate the sounds that had never heard and never would have heard, making them underdeveloped. Doctors, educators, churches, the hearing world has coalesced against the world of the deaf of us with incredible violence. Only the word reigns supreme "
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