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Editorial Many Stories After the release of data from the Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Youth, it has been my custom to comment on trends in a brief editorial. There are so many things happening in terms of demographics, ethnic /racial identity, school placement, levels of hearing loss, geographic movement, cochlear implants—to name a few—that I have decided it would be beneficial to deal with developments in a later article-length treatment. However , there are highlights I want to mention. I also want to try to tie them to what I see as significant changes occurring in American society as a whole that have implications for the way we think and the ways in which we will be, or should be, educating deaf and hard of hearing children. After reviewing national and regional data, and data from California, Texas, New York, and Florida—states that enroll approximately one-third of all deaf and hard of hearing children in the nation—it is clear that some long-existing trends are continuing and more recent ones are gathering steam. First, despite a general population growth in the order of 80,000,000 people in the past thirty-five years or so, enrollment in programs for deaf and hard of hearing children has remained roughly similar or declined. This means that there are fewer deaf and hard of hearing children as a portion of the general population. Within our programs, almost half have less than severe hearing losses, without aids, and a significant percentage is classified as having "normal" hearing! As might be expected, given these developments, a growing number of children are being educated through oral-only means and in at least partially-integrated environments. Sign and speech is the most common mode of communication, and sign-only is used with only 5 percent of children. Large numbers of deaf and hard of hearing children now have at least some academic or quasi-academic activities with hearing children . In the past, I have commented on how it is inappropriate , both for psychological and demographic reasons, to use the term "minority." That is becoming ever more apparent . In not too many more years, the "white majority" in programs for deaf and hard of hearing children will be in the minority. This is already true in our most populous state, California, where children classified as white make up less than 30 percent of enrollment in our programs. What does this all mean? Obviously, it means different things to different people, and each one of us represents a different perspective. However, there seems to be a general consensus developing in our countries that reflect a positive and inclusive change. It struck me while reading of developments and events in three quite disparate areas —Literacy, History, and Law Enforcement. We are all aware of the verbal wars that have been waged over the literary canon, with some critics arguing that limitation of the canon to Dead White Males denigrates the contributions of significant, equally important, elements of our population. This has been met with some resistance by defenders who have argued that most of our great literature has been written by dead white males, for whatever reason, although some defenders would be willing to add some Living White Males to the canon. (I am taking poetic license to exaggerate here. I apologize if I have hurt the feelings of any Dead White Males). I recently read a review that claimed the results of these exchanges have been positive, although differences of opinion continue to exist. Most professionals agree that the literary canon has been broadened in a positive way to include more that one world view. Also, most people agree that Shakespeare did have a way with words. The same thing seems to be happening in history, at least from my limited reading of it. It has been a cliche that history has always been written by those who won the wars and those who were in control. This is no longer completely true. In this country, we recently have seen publication of works about slavery from direct testimony that has lain unpublished from the words of freed slaves...

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