Generally, I'm not surprised by the utter hate and vilification that get thrown at Dr. Karl White by some in the culturally deaf community only because this is to be expected, unfortunately. This is true even in a YouTube video he was in recently. Dr. Karl White holds a different opinion when it comes to helping parents of deaf children and the Early Hearing Detection Intervention for babies that he supports. As a result on the differences of opinions when it comes to deaf children charges against Dr. Karl White run the gamut of "verbally attacking" culturally deaf people to calling deaf protesters as "terrorists" to accusing him of blocking submissions of papers on ASL at EHDI conferences. All this even though Dr. Karl White is fluent in sign language.
There are a place and time to agree to disagree and state your case but to vilify Dr. Karl White with slander and character assassinations won't go anywhere. Hearing parents will see these vile attitudes and see them as deaf zealots and assume the worse thinking the culturally deaf community acts like that and are nothing more than a group of people with extremist attitudes. Not exactly an ideal way to boost the image of the culturally deaf community.
Instead of throwing temper tantrums it'd be better to be more involved in the EHDI process and help spread awareness just like Dr. Beth Benedict has been doing.
It was established ten years ago, and not one deaf person attended the first conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where the latest conference was also held. Dr. Beth Benedict, a Communication Studies professor at Gallaudet University, heard about the EHDI conference, went to the second one and has been a loyal attendee ever since. She and the Alpha Sigma Pi fraternity hosted three workshops on EDHI, explaining how you can become involved and what you can do to spread awareness.That is a much better alternative than going online on YouTube just to piss and defecate every where in the comment section about Dr. Karl White like some 3 year old kid not yet potty trained.That's not spreading awareness. That's being petty and immature. Spreading awareness in the most positive light about sign language, early detection and intervention for babies born with hearing loss are what get hearing parents' attention. And certainly by not acting immaturely.
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Ha! It has been the same 'ole *D* people who have tried to exclude Dr. Karl White from the EHDI conference.
The Deaf Edge tried to destroy Dr. Karl White's creditability when she tried to get the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). She failed to obtain it in a big time.
Here is the link:
http://www.thedeafedge.org
Go take a look at "EHDI FOIA Request Update"
So, Dr. Karl White is a survivor from all the crazy v/blogosperes! He still stays in the EHDI conference!
Good for him.
I agree. The DE showed a bit of paranoia and illogicality when she said:
"Ultimately, in my opinion, the message from NCHAM and the CDC is very clear. And that is:
'You and the ASL Deaf Community can shove it.' "
She had it out for Dr. Karl White from the very beginning and was prejudiced in the first place.
so osbessed with him? as i said the community not give a damn about him. he is a father of oppressive. boy, mike, you surely hater being deaf as Dr. Don Grushkin mentioned us.
Awesome TED video. It shows Dr. White's dedication to early intervention and language opportunities for all deaf kids, be it sign language or utilizing hearing technology and LSL.
Thanks for the article, it's a breath of fresh air.
Ann_C
anony @ 5:16PM,
Blogging about him a few times this year for the first time ever doesn't come close to being obsessed with him. Rather, I see that some in the deaf community have him on their minds constantly and they're the ones that whine the loudest.
I have deaf, Deaf, and hh friends, yeah, that makes me a "hater of deaf." *rolls eyes*
C'mon, anony. You can do better than that, whoever you are hiding cowardly behind an anonymous name.
Ann,
Indeed. I'm glad Dr. Karl White did this video on spreading the important message about EHDI.
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