The Deaf In American Voices Summary

Educational systems rarely stress the importance of training the ability of enlightening individual complications like nutrition, though less has been done to challenge the minorities and the disabled. Thanks to the works of Humphries and Padden, they stressed out to emphasize the cultural uniqueness of the deaf subculture in the American system. Humphries and Padden drew on their individual experiences as being deaf to illuminate the culture and life of deaf Americans, myths, and their everyday life (Armstrong, 2005). The essay centers on the authors' articulation in the book "the deaf in American voices" to explore the authors' biases. It focuses on how people can be deaf and not deaf as well as the essence of the deaf community in making
Humphries and Padden in their final chapters envision this dissatisfaction as they quote “Doctors and scientists are approaching a time when they will be able to identify and "correct" genetic deafness, which may lead to the elimination of deaf communities and sign languages. Nevertheless, sign languages are generating more public attention and interest than at any other time in their history. How can two conflicting impulses exist at the same time to eradicate deafness and yet to celebrate it is the most illustrious consequence, the creation, and maintenance of a unique form of human language?” (Armstrong, 2005). While the authors’ appreciation for their being in the deaf culture is seen as a misfortune in the contemporary world, it is this that drew their concerns on the tasty topic of racism that Humphries and Padden considered a confronting factor to the genuine appreciation of being deaf. Lastly, the authors also hint at the concerns of the diminishing out of deaf clubs and residential state schools for the deaf through, which the deaf language and way of life are coordinated in this