Born-deaf literacy rates are abysmal. 90% of them cannot use closed captioning. In an emergency it is the only way to communicate to them.
(I am all for self-responsibility and they absolutely have the responsibility to try to learn literacy still as adults, but there are fundamental issues in schools and medicine that are fucking them over, hard, they are now out of the schooling environment and with 10 years of full time catch-up to do)
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Born-deaf literacy rates are abysmal. 90% of them cannot use closed captioning. In an emergency it is the only way to communicate to them.
(I am all for self-responsibility and they absolutely have the responsibility to try to learn literacy still as adults, but there are fundamental issues in schools and medicine that are fucking them over, hard, they are now out of the schooling environment and with 10 years of full time catch-up to do)