A Response to: “What Crisis?: The Reality for Illinois School for the Deaf”
Sunday, March 3, 2013 A Response to: “What Crisis?: The Reality for Illinois School for the Deaf” By Jerry Covell Aaron R. published a post on his blog on February 18, 2013 with the headline: What Crisis?: The reality for Illinois School for the Deaf ,” in response to my February 6, 2013 open letter titled: “ 25 Years After DPN, Deaf STILL CAN’T?” ( http://saveourdeafschools.org ). I want to thank him for his post, because it reinforced and validated the facts in my first open letter and brought more attention to the problems existing at Illinois School for the Deaf. In Aaron’s blog post, the author provided “points of clarification” (although mostly false clarifications) in an apparent attempt to divert people’s attention from the acts of oppression and discrimination that I mentioned in my open letter. His post did not by any means constitute any kind of clarification on the issues. It was instead a defense of an audist’s position and a justification for cued speech. The issue