Public Address | Cafe | Access: Hearing privilege and Deaf disempowerment https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374085#post374085 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374085#post374085 We had to choose all NZSL or all oral English.

Whatever happened to the fad for teaching pre-verbal infants sign language? I remember that being a thing a few years ago, on the basis that speaking is beyond the fine motor control skills of infants for a long time after…

]]> Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:43:17 +1200 Kevin McCready https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374052#post374052 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374052#post374052 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:09:58 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374046#post374046 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374046#post374046 The false claim is that bilingualism (English via CIP and NZSL) will reduce a Deaf child's chance to learn English.

Yeah, this is what we were told when our son was little (though he didn't have a cochlear implant but a Moderate hearing loss): that if he learned to sign,…

]]> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:44:27 +1200 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374045#post374045 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374045#post374045 The false claim is that bilingualism […] will reduce a Deaf child’s chance to learn English.
That fear of semilingualism is an “argument” commonly advanced against teaching any language other than the dominant majority language. The only condition under which it might have any validity is where the learner is…

]]> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:05:46 +1200 Kevin McCready https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374044#post374044 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374044#post374044 This is a great article. I'd like to take the discussion a step further about the damage hearing privilege is doing to innocent children.

Hearing privilege is leaving up to 50-60 Deaf children per year in NZ without a language. Why? Because parents of Deaf kids are being told they…

]]> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:43:19 +1200 Art Croft https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374043#post374043 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374043#post374043 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:38:30 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374042#post374042 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374042#post374042 As a young child I learnt that privileges are earned.

The world is full of unearned privilege. Try and say something useful.

]]> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:24:10 +1200 Art Croft https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374041#post374041 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374041#post374041 As a young child I learnt that privileges are earned. I must have been a very good boy cos I'm hearing privileged, sight privileged, height privileged, blonde privileged, colour privileged, gender privileged, race privileged and privilege privileged.

Well done me.

]]> Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:02:03 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374040#post374040 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-hearing-privilege-and-deaf-disempowerment/?p=374040#post374040 Discussion from blog post.

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