Deaf culture necessarily lacks this enveloping and insular quality in part because of the epidemiology of deafness: most deaf children are raised by hearing parents, and vice-versa, and except for occasional concentrations, (like Martha's Vineyard in the 19th century), deaf people are geographically dispersed.
Also, in recent years, some advocates for the deaf have argued that deafness is not a disability, but is rather simply a difference from people who can hear; this too suggests that values can enter into our understanding of what counts as disability.
(One might still wonder whether their method of reproducing should even count as an enhancement technology for Agar, given that had one of the women simply partnered with the deaf man, the genetic deafness of their child would not be an issue of engineering).
Megan Williams hired a sign teacher who moved in with the family after her son, Jacob, was born deaf and she learnt that the biggest curse of deafness is illiteracy.
However, it can be used for selecting for or against other traits, such as gender, or disability for example, some deaf parents want to raise children who inherit their deafness.
Particularly frequent or prolonged exposure to very loud sound can permanently damage the ear's sensory cells, causing irreversible hearing loss, and even deafness.
Hockney's deafness, which is hereditary and requires him to wear hearing aids in both ears, worsened.
The physical consequence of stroke is a horrifying catalogue of damage that includes personality changes, impaired sensation, paralysis, incontinence, visual or language problems, deafness, blindness and seizures.
But what yesterday's event showed was not merely an inability to connect with lower-income voters, but at best a tone-deafness and at worst an indifference to them.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD'S long post on the political tone-deafness of the environmental movement is an expression of hope masquerading as a jeremiad.
Republicans in Richmond hastily rewrote their bill, requiring merely an obligatory abdominal ultrasound rather than the use of a vaginal probe.The fact that Mr McDonnell had not foreseen a public backlash to the vaginal-ultrasound requirement seems, to some, to illustrate his tone-deafness and inattention to detail.
