Word: deaf
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Weiner, who considers herself culturally deaf,went through high school, college and graduateschool as a main-streamed deaf student...
...graduate study of deaf culture atColumbia University, Weiner says she came torealize that while reading lips and beingmainstreamed had certain advantages, it had evengreater costs...
Brenda Schertz, an information specialist atthe Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hardof Hearing, says that being a deaf child in a classroom of hearing children is isolating...
Weiner says studying in an environment devoidof other deaf students left her without a sense ofgroup membership...
Were she to do it all over, Weiner says shewould choose a university for deaf students, likeGalludet University, in Washington D.C., which hasa well-established deaf community...