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Comments on "W(h)ither the Deaf Community?": A Normalization Juggernaut?
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 6, Number 2, Winter 2006
- pp. 210-219
- 10.1353/sls.2006.0011
- Article
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My response to Johnston's (2004) "W(h)ither the Deaf Community?" is theoretical in nature and sociological in perspective. I comment on how Johnston's particular concern for the possible demise of Australian Sign Language (Auslan) in Australia's currently transforming social and medical context surrounding childhood deafness is legitimate but perhaps a bit premature.