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Do you have a source for this? I would expect that any education system that teaches sign also teaches reading. So it would be good to share the stats you use

Do you have a source for this? I would expect that any education system that teaches sign also teaches reading. So it would be good to share the stats you use to understand how dead people have elevated rates of illiteracy.

richbell 4y ago
I suspect there aren't many academic sources detailing the discrimination faced by deaf people, though there might be compilations of first-hand accounts. The deaf community is fairly insular. My partner's father was born in India as the eldest of several boys. Despite his family being well-off, he was treated as a burden and most of his family refused to learn IPSL to be able to communicate with him. His mother and father weren't supportive of his personal, academic, or business pursuits; his brothers all went to prestigious foreign universities and became highly educated. He made his own way to Canada where he learned his 4th and 5th languages, ASL and English, and started a family with a deaf girl his family had arranged a marriage to. The man has gumption, but was never really able to escaped the poverty line.
bee_rider 4y ago
I'm not sure about illiteracy rates, but generally I think it is well known that the education system doesn't serve deaf students as well as their hearing counterparts. Note that the second link tries to debunk a statistic, but really more contextualizes it to not look so bad. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15454499/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15454499/ http://www.redeafined.com/2012/04/debunking-fourth-grade-reading-level.html http://www.redeafined.com/2012/04/debunking-fourth-grade-rea...
- quechimba 4y ago
  They say that too on page 13 here http://www.insor.gov.co/home/wp-content/uploads/filebase/recomendaciones__paginas_web.pdf http://www.insor.gov.co/home/wp-content/uploads/filebase/rec...

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Do you have a source for this? I would expect that any education system that teaches sign also teaches reading. So it would be good to share the stats you use

by prepend 4y ago

richbell 4y ago
I suspect there aren't many academic sources detailing the discrimination faced by deaf people, though there might be compilations of first-hand accounts. The deaf community is fairly insular. My partner's father was born in India as the eldest of several boys. Despite his family being well-off, he was treated as a burden and most of his family refused to learn IPSL to be able to communicate with him. His mother and father weren't supportive of his personal, academic, or business pursuits; his brothers all went to prestigious foreign universities and became highly educated. He made his own way to Canada where he learned his 4th and 5th languages, ASL and English, and started a family with a deaf girl his family had arranged a marriage to. The man has gumption, but was never really able to escaped the poverty line.
bee_rider 4y ago
I'm not sure about illiteracy rates, but generally I think it is well known that the education system doesn't serve deaf students as well as their hearing counterparts. Note that the second link tries to debunk a statistic, but really more contextualizes it to not look so bad. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15454499/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15454499/ http://www.redeafined.com/2012/04/debunking-fourth-grade-reading-level.html http://www.redeafined.com/2012/04/debunking-fourth-grade-rea...
- quechimba 4y ago
  They say that too on page 13 here http://www.insor.gov.co/home/wp-content/uploads/filebase/recomendaciones__paginas_web.pdf http://www.insor.gov.co/home/wp-content/uploads/filebase/rec...