really.
I am posting this in my xanga too, and actually in my Classroom Discussion pages
So this conversation should really be continued with allison, and probably not lj, but unfortunately the chance to continue was ruined by work. And This should also be information shared with all people.
In my class this morning my professor and a few students were doing questioning and answering. The questions dealt with with how hearing or a lack there of may affect how people can speak/ effectively communicate. The class is communication and communication disorders. Everyone in this class is going on to be either a speech therapist, linguist, or audiologist, meaning they will have to deal with people that have a hearing disability at some point in their professional career. While in class they refered to people, well people like me as a deaf person.
I am not usually one that gets hung up on political correctness, i just try to respect everyone as i expect to be respected. Imagine with me for a second. You are at your doctor's office, (s)he steps outside to talk to a nurse, saying "I need you to track down some information for my flu person i'm dealing with" OFcourse i could have gone a lot deeper and been " Could you get some cream for my herpes person?" Meanwhile you are in the room, you've just been talking to the doctor for 20 minutes, catching up with him/her, filling them in on your adventures over the past six months, and now all you are to him/her is a diseased object.
I am more than a deaf young adult (yes i know i'm not completely deaf). Do i identify with the deaf community more than i do the normal population... not necessarily one side or the other.
These students going onto their careers need to know that this isn't the proper way to address people, it is perhaps the quickest way to lose faithful patients, and to make visiting health professionals even more of a bad thing.
YOu may not think this is a big issue, but that doesn't excuse you from dismissing my feelings, or for that matter 1 out of every 1,000 peoples. How can disabilities be phrased better? Well let me introduce myself the same way I'd want you to talk about me in a class if this were to come up. My name is Tom, I do have a hearing disability, but that isn't what defines me as a person.
Labeling some one as a deaf person, blind person, retarded, etc can have lasting effects, whether it be on the person you speak of, or to the people you talk to.
Once again, Imagine if you were labeled for something you couldn't help, and immediately draws you out as less of a person (which you do need to realize, every single person with a disability may have been able to conquer or hasn't yet, that they feel like less of a person than someone with no disabilities and is considered completely healthy: we battle depression, self-hatred, Doubts in God, etc)
Please take this for what it is, not an attack against those that have done such things in their past, but rather information to help you know what is right and wrong when dealing with people with a disability. IF you read this and dismiss this as being another politically correct thing. DON'T. This isn't about being politically correct. This is about humans, people, and how everysingle person deserves respect (well at least until they do something horrific enough to lose that respect).
So this conversation should really be continued with allison, and probably not lj, but unfortunately the chance to continue was ruined by work. And This should also be information shared with all people.
In my class this morning my professor and a few students were doing questioning and answering. The questions dealt with with how hearing or a lack there of may affect how people can speak/ effectively communicate. The class is communication and communication disorders. Everyone in this class is going on to be either a speech therapist, linguist, or audiologist, meaning they will have to deal with people that have a hearing disability at some point in their professional career. While in class they refered to people, well people like me as a deaf person.
I am not usually one that gets hung up on political correctness, i just try to respect everyone as i expect to be respected. Imagine with me for a second. You are at your doctor's office, (s)he steps outside to talk to a nurse, saying "I need you to track down some information for my flu person i'm dealing with" OFcourse i could have gone a lot deeper and been " Could you get some cream for my herpes person?" Meanwhile you are in the room, you've just been talking to the doctor for 20 minutes, catching up with him/her, filling them in on your adventures over the past six months, and now all you are to him/her is a diseased object.
I am more than a deaf young adult (yes i know i'm not completely deaf). Do i identify with the deaf community more than i do the normal population... not necessarily one side or the other.
These students going onto their careers need to know that this isn't the proper way to address people, it is perhaps the quickest way to lose faithful patients, and to make visiting health professionals even more of a bad thing.
YOu may not think this is a big issue, but that doesn't excuse you from dismissing my feelings, or for that matter 1 out of every 1,000 peoples. How can disabilities be phrased better? Well let me introduce myself the same way I'd want you to talk about me in a class if this were to come up. My name is Tom, I do have a hearing disability, but that isn't what defines me as a person.
Labeling some one as a deaf person, blind person, retarded, etc can have lasting effects, whether it be on the person you speak of, or to the people you talk to.
Once again, Imagine if you were labeled for something you couldn't help, and immediately draws you out as less of a person (which you do need to realize, every single person with a disability may have been able to conquer or hasn't yet, that they feel like less of a person than someone with no disabilities and is considered completely healthy: we battle depression, self-hatred, Doubts in God, etc)
Please take this for what it is, not an attack against those that have done such things in their past, but rather information to help you know what is right and wrong when dealing with people with a disability. IF you read this and dismiss this as being another politically correct thing. DON'T. This isn't about being politically correct. This is about humans, people, and how everysingle person deserves respect (well at least until they do something horrific enough to lose that respect).