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Deafness Is Not a Lack, It Is a Disability

Disability activists and theorists call this conclusion into question. Deaf culture experts argue that we should think about deafness as a unique culture, rather than as a disability. Members of the deaf community have their own language, which clearly maps onto our legal and political categories of what it means to be a cultural group.

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