If I’m reading this correctly, the vast majority of born-deaf people don’t learn how to fucking read? How is this even possible? Like if I’m born deaf, I’m learning to read as quickly as possible. Because reading is probably the number one vector for accessing society as a deaf person.
If I’m reading this correctly, the vast majority of born-deaf people don’t learn how to fucking read?
Yep.
In addition to what the other person mentioned, there's also some real difficulty in establishing a language initially. I can't teach you to read unless there's another language to scaffold that off of. If you don't understand spoken english or a sign language, and your parents and teachers don't understand a sign language, and their spoken english isn't getting through, how are you going to learn much of anything?
Instead of getting the support they need through specialized schools, they're generally put through normal schools even though that won't do much good for them, because they need the additional resource of sign language, and the process for them learning how to read past a fourth grade level is different for them because of that.
If I’m reading this correctly, the vast majority of born-deaf people don’t learn how to fucking read? How is this even possible? Like if I’m born deaf, I’m learning to read as quickly as possible. Because reading is probably the number one vector for accessing society as a deaf person.
Yep.
In addition to what the other person mentioned, there's also some real difficulty in establishing a language initially. I can't teach you to read unless there's another language to scaffold that off of. If you don't understand spoken english or a sign language, and your parents and teachers don't understand a sign language, and their spoken english isn't getting through, how are you going to learn much of anything?
Instead of getting the support they need through specialized schools, they're generally put through normal schools even though that won't do much good for them, because they need the additional resource of sign language, and the process for them learning how to read past a fourth grade level is different for them because of that.