“Quick Statistics About Hearing | NIDCD.” U.S National Library of Medicine, U.S. National
Library of Medicine, 17 June 2016, Www.NIDCD.gov.
This source gives the statistics needed to give my paper a baseline of truth and evidence supporting one of my counter-claims. It also provided great insight to the real numbers of how many people are affected by what this paper is about.
Kim, Eun Kyung. "New White House receptionist is a West Wing pioneer: 'Deaf people can do anything '." TODAY.com. TODAY, 27 Mar. 2015. Web. 30 Oct. 2016.
Eun Kyung Kim a reporter for Today, interviews a White House receptionist, Leah Katz Hernandez, who is deaf. Katz-Hernandez shows great joy of being offered this …show more content…
"Deaf Culture Interview." Interview by Sydney A. Lifeprint.com. Lifeprint, 7 Feb. 2008. Web. 31 Oct. 2016.
This interview introduces many questions that are normally asked by hearing people to deaf people. The reason that this interview was appealing was that the person interviewed is deaf, has their doctorate, is employed as a professor, and runs a website used for teaching American SL to hearing students. This provides a good example of what the deaf are capable of which I could use in my paper to contradict the views that the deaf are disabled and incapable of …show more content…
It covers a wide range of questions such as wondering the causes of Deafness to their opinion on hearing people learning American Sign Language. The authors are Deaf and they provide an answer to all of the questions asked even if they seem unreasonable. The variety of questions gives evidence to the oppression and obliviousness of the general public with all of the misinformation assumed by them.
Alan, Ron. “Deaf Child 's Sign Language Name Looks Too Much like Gun, Parent Says School
Told Him.” U.S. News, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2012, usnews.nbcnews.com.
This interview gives information on an example of a Deaf person’s education environment at risk. This source shows that some schools provide misinformation by telling people that they have the power to request a change whether it is in their sign name or the way they use American Sign Language.
ADA. “Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.” Information on Americans with Disabilities
Act, United States Department of Justice, 21 May 2012,