Zitat des Tages über Taube Leute / Deaf People:
One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.
Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
When I signed up for 'Dancing with the Stars,' I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn't want that.
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.
I'm ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, 'Deaf people can dance.'
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.
I think we really do need deaf people out there writing their own shows.