Chapter 35: Different Classifications

Different labels for people with varying degrees of hearing loss and varying means of preferred communication is not something I had thought about before.  The category of "hearing-in-the-head" surprised me.

"Strictly oral-deaf people who don't know how to sign, refuse to learn even the rudiments, and may have a political bias against the Deaf community."--pg. 207, p. 2

Disliking others who are in their position of not being able to hear and stubbornly refusing to learn an easier way for them to communicate seems like it would make life difficult and lonely.

I am surprised they did not press hearing people not using their voices around Deaf people more, but simply noted that some do not.  In class we have been taught that it is quite inconsiderate to speak when Deaf people are present because it makes it where they cannot understand the conversation.