Argumentative Essay On Deaf Vs Hearing

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When people hear the word Deaf, the only image they have is “someone losing their hearing ability”. Hearing is always considered superior and deaf is considered pathologic. People want to help deaf people and “fix” them, so they used their own way to trait deafness. In 1880, the Milan Conference was held by a congress consisted of hearing people. Although this conference is all about deaf people, few participants were deaf. This conference, which almost destroyed deaf people, passed a law to ban the using of American Sign Language because they insisted deaf people need to be educated in an oral way with hearing aids. At that time, most hearing people thought they are superior to deaf people and, hearing is superior to seeing. Thus, without