Archive for November, 2010


Nov
18

Far away, indeed.

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Two incidents took place recently that made me think about the inherent, subconscious biases that we all carry and how they spill over into our interactions with others. The first incident was when I took my two-year-old daughter  in for allergy testing. We went to a different clinic from the one we usually go to,[.....]



Nov
11

If it ain’t broken…

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This article originally appeared in American Society for Deaf Children’s The Endeavor, Fall 2010. I saw a post on Facebook recently that made me pause. A friend wrote that she had told her two-year-old son, “Mommy’s ears are broken, cannot hear…can’t hear, I use my hands to talk.” Her son then looked inside her ears[.....]