The following is from a Twitter screencap:

Memphis Oral School for the Deaf is reopening on Tuesday. Not only is ASL not allowed, but the kids aren't even allowed to lip/speechread. The article says that teachers often cover their mouths to ensure the DEAF students are "listening with their ears."

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I searched for the original article, and it ( Read more... )

Something occurred to me today. So, to start with, our society considers child abuse and neglect to be some of the most heinous of crimes, even more so than murder. I'm going to set aside the ridiculousness of making the snuffing out of a unique human being to be a lesser crime than a whole slew of other things for now, and focus on something else ( Read more... )