Re: [xmca] The Fundamentals of Defectology

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

The work with the blind-deaf that Karl Levitin wrote about seems to be one
way to play out Vygotsky's ideas about creating social situations of
development where the blind where not functionally blind.

The work of Carol Padden and Tom Humphries (Deaf in America) also bears on
these ideas.

mike

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:50 PM, ulvi icil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com> wrote:

> Volume 2 was one of  my main materials of reading in the first semester of
> my master program last year. I went almost through the whole volume.
> It was really interesting to see how Vygotsky imagines the solution of the
> problem in terms of the social dimension for handicapped people in complete
> consistency with his theory's main features, social-cultural, I mean.
>
> This one is really excellent: " "A blind person will remain blind and a
> deaf
> person deaf, but they
>   will cease to be handicapped because a handicapped condition is only
>   a social concept ... Blindness by itself does not make a child
>   handicapped"
>
>
> Ulvi
>
>
>
> 2011/5/10 Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
>
> > I have been reading Volume 2 of the LSV CW. This material has quite a
> > sharp polemical edge to it. People might be interested in the following
> > passage (p. 83):
> >
> >    "Achieving the religious miracle of mankind's eternal dream - giving
> >    sight to the blind and speech to the deaf - is the task of social
> >    education as it emerges in the greatest era of the final
> >    reconstruction of mankind."
> >
> > and he goes on (somewhat letting the side down, by contemporary
> prejudices)
> >
> >    "Thanks to eugenic measures, thanks to an altered social structure,
> >    mankind will arrive at different healthier conditions of life."
> >
> > and just to complete the idea (which concerns the social character of
> > the psychology of people affected by some defect):
> >
> >    "A blind person will remain blind and a deaf person deaf, but they
> >    will cease to be handicapped because a handicapped condition is only
> >    a social concept ... Blindness by itself does not make a child
> >    handicapped ... Blindness ... is a sign of the difference between
> >    his behaviour and the behaviour of others."
> >
> > Interesting. stuff.
> > Andy
> >
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