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As I read your blog for research on my college pap...

2011-05-30T15:03:09.636-04:00

As I read your blog for research on my college paper "Cultural VS. Medical Model Deafness", I thought I had an opinion but realized I haven't heard enough from our friends in the Deaf Community...so thank you for your prospectives on this but I think we all need to do more research because MOST of us were at one time hearing and need to better understand never hearing a thing or

A good doctor friend wisely told me that the medic...

2010-05-20T16:47:04.965-04:00

A good doctor friend wisely told me that the medical model is focused (in the field of deafness) on how deafness is a disability and needs to be corrected urgently and cultural model focuses or rather, it differs in that deafness is a disability, if not a different way of communicating.

cool blog friends!

2010-05-10T09:38:00.689-04:00

cool blog friends!

Someone asked me about sleeping with right ear in ...

2010-03-12T13:26:59.722-05:00

Someone asked me about sleeping with right ear in pillow to avoid hearing dh snoring. I am deaf in left ear but I am HOH in right ear so if I didn't sleep with right ear in pillow I would have problems with his snoring.

"I think you have to live as a hearing person...

2010-03-11T16:31:29.751-05:00

"I think you have to live as a hearing person and then lose all that to know the realities of being deaf. I attach no credence to the view of those who have no other perspective, I am sure they are happy as they are, they know nothing else, but have no real reference point on the 'medical aspect'. We can only understand what we have lost, not so much whatever there is to be '

"Most who are borderline deaf or are deafened...

2010-03-11T13:36:16.844-05:00

"Most who are borderline deaf or are deafened/acquired/HOH will see no issues in accepting both social and medical models, some just accept the medical model."

That's what I was thinking of that statement. I agree. I strongly believe it's the "mother nature."

White Ghost

Most who are borderline deaf or are deafned/acquir...

2010-03-11T12:27:46.102-05:00

Most who are borderline deaf or are deafned/acquired/Hoh will see no issues in accepting both social AND medical models, some just accept the medical model. Perceptions mainly are based on individual experieinces and abiltities, it is nothing to do with culture. Loss defines disability aka the medial aspect. I'm not obsessed about cures either but that IS my bottom line, I am not a fan or

e) I just have to let you know that I've bee...

2010-03-11T11:10:00.231-05:00

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I just have to let you know that I've been enjoying reading your blog!

Without any doubt, I definitely view deafness with a medical model viewpoint. I have bilateral cochlear implants. When I was growing up, I learned to hear and to speak utilizing the Auditory-Verbal approach. I've taken advantage of the ADA law as I had an IEP when I growing up, and I also

Ann_C - I said that Jamie Berke's article SEEM...

2010-03-11T04:44:06.783-05:00

Ann_C - I said that Jamie Berke's article SEEMS to favor the cultural model. I never claimed that she only has this viewpoint. I know many deaf people who have hearing aids who strongly have or prefer to have a cultural model outlook. I have yet to meet one with a CI who prefers this model.

Interesting, I had no idea that Jamie Berke was considering getting a CI. I have read in

Geez-louise, I know for a fact that Jamie Burke h...

2010-03-10T21:57:24.571-05:00

Geez-louise,

I know for a fact that Jamie Burke has a CI. She has written in her Burke Outspoken blog about getting a CI. How does she juxtapose this use of hearing technology with her supposedly Deaf cultural view as you claim?

I was born profoundly deaf yet raised oral and still use a hearing aid. There are some of us d/Deaf who cross this divide of the medical version

I've been in the hearing health care industry ...

2010-03-10T21:13:24.752-05:00

I've been in the hearing health care industry for over 20 years so definitely the medical model for me. However, the type of hearing aids or even decisions to treat a medical condition such as a hearing loss is often based on social stigma. Thus the sizes and appearances of hearing aids have changed a great deal

Sharon Marie -- Interesting about your both ears ...

2010-03-10T17:39:25.175-05:00

Sharon Marie --

Interesting about your both ears when you are sleeping. How can you tell when there is a noise in a bedroom during the night? I am very curious because you sleep the right ear onto the pillow and could not hear in the left ear.

I have many hearing friends and they have told me that I was lucky not to hear snoring. They mostly prefer to have four bedrooms

As someone who was born HOH and raised in a deaf f...

2010-03-10T14:39:13.144-05:00

As someone who was born HOH and raised in a deaf family and a part of the deaf culture, I view hearing loss as both medical and cultural. There's no avoiding one or the other except in cultural, it can be avoid for those who do not wish to be part of it.

As I have said in the past, being deaf or hard of hearing, it is TECHNICALLY a disability.

I don't go around

Hearing aids are a definite medical necessity. Th...

2010-03-10T12:56:17.116-05:00

Hearing aids are a definite medical necessity. The only time I appreciate being deaf in my left ear is when my husband snores and I sleep with my right ear to the pillow!

I view Deaf as a cultural difference, much like be...

2010-03-10T12:26:19.747-05:00

I view Deaf as a cultural difference, much like being Hispanic.

I see *lots* of accommodations for Spanish-speaking people. Some of these accommodations are written into law *and enforced*.

Not so for Deaf. The Hearing expect all the responsibility for communication to be on the Deaf person. This lack of access strongly pushes Deaf toward use of HA and CI. If Hearing

I have a medical viewpoint but I am not obsess abo...

2010-03-10T07:37:17.312-05:00

I have a medical viewpoint but I am not obsess about curing my deafness. I just use CI and HA as a tool to cope in the world, also sign language when needed. Although hearing aids are not an issue over here, I believe they should be covered by insurance for those who want them because they are medical necessities, to enable people to hear and for people to communicate(especially those who have