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Posted by Ed Mullen on 06/05/07 01:56
Ed Mullen wrote:
> Ed Seedhouse wrote:
>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:03:32 -0400, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> As I read that story it doesn't say she is not deaf.
>>
>>
>>> To quote from the article (with emphasis added):
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>>> Fernandes, who was selected by the board of trustees last week and is
>>> scheduled to take office next January, *was born deaf* but grew up
>>> speaking and did not learn American Sign Language until she was 23.
>>> Sign language is the preferred way of communicating at 1,900-student
>>> Gallaudet.
>>
>>
>> That's what I read, and it doesn't say she is not currently deaf. Lots
>> of deaf folks grow up speaking without ever regaining their hearing.
>> Some go deaf after learning to speak and still keep speadking. In fact
>> the complaint that she is not "deaf enough" implies strongly to me that
>> she is deaf to some extent at least.
>>
>
> She was born deaf, she IS deaf. She didn't learn American Sign Language
> until she was in her 20s. That fact, and charges by students of her
> being "autocratic" led them to charge that she is "not deaf enough" and
> to the protests and her ouster.
>
And I forgot to mention that her husband and children can hear. More
ammunition for the "not deaf enough" charge.
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