Testing for Deafness
All my children been tested for deafness as soon as they are born.
Its amazing how they find out these days when they are few days old, although I have never seen it done because my wife knows how uneasy I feel but she told me how its done.
Then they get tested at a later stage even though I know my children are all hearing hell the doctors will get an ear bashing from me if they ever suggested implants or what ever to “make them normal”
It seems to me that CIs (cochlear implants) are becoming the norm now? Are we moving towards the medical model of disability - we should be focusing on the social model, changing society around us with adequate provision for impairments, not changing the deaf child to fit into society. I can see a world in a hundred year’s time where children born will be bionically fitted with whatever is needed to make them ‘normal,’ which frightens me.