On Thursday, March 09, 2000 4:25 PM, Nate [SMTP:schmolze@students.wisc.edu]
wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eva Ekeblad [mailto:eva.ekeblad@ped.gu.se]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 9:13 AM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: RE: a belated answer
>
> As for the Kuusisto quote, yes I really liked his description of his
joint
> activity with the dog. And that comment about "I thought the dogs read
the
> streetlights" is well worth thinking about. It is all too easy to think
> carelessly about disabled people.
>
> Eva
>
> Once upon a time in an Ed Policy class an instructor read a wonderful
> narrative about a child (deaf) who went out to play and met another child
> (disabled?). Upon returning home the mother asked the child (deaf) how
his
> day went, the child responded we had fun but he (disabled ?) does not
talk
> normally, he just keeps moving his lips. The mother then explained that
> most people do not speak with their hands but with their lips.
>
> I also love the story Vygotsky tells about a friend who was deaf. The
deaf
> friend applauded at the end of a concert, and the gentleman next to him
> commented, "Why are you applauding, you can't hear". The deaf friend
> responded, "but I can hear, I hear with my feet". Vygotsky was also very
> critical of the assumption that to be blind is to live in darkness.
>
> Nate
There is a Scottish classical percussionist called Evelyn Glennie who is
also deaf and who also, as I understand it, can play with an orchestra
through feeling the vibration of the other instruments (presumably along
with watching the conductor and reading the score, but then everyone else
has to do that too).
Bruce
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