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Vision as Resistance in Deaf Culture by Harshit Ambesh is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) The author observed practices in an American audiology lab that evaluated children for cochlear implants that seemed strange, as vision had become a symbol resisted by some audiologists. 2) The author suggests this phenomenon is rooted in a history of oppositional thinking between concepts like oralism vs manualism and hearing vs vision in the Deaf community in the US. 3) In contrast, countries like Denmark have systematically dismantled these binary oppositions and increased support for sign languag
- Author
- Harshit Ambesh
- Language
- EN