As of yesterday will disappear from all laws and official documents the term "deaf and dumb."
The term "deaf" does in fact place the term 'preverbal deaf. "
The term "deaf" does in fact place the term 'preverbal deaf. "
Here are excerpts from the document presented to the Senate almost ten years ago. The text explains that the change of the definition comes not only from a need for redefinition of the health of real disease according to scientific criteria, but also from the consequences of the stigmatizing term "deaf and dumb."
to the President on 9 May 1996, the Senate
Changing the definition of "deaf"
in "deaf" or "deaf preverbal"
BILL REPORT
Article 1.
Honourable Senators. - As you know, who is suffering from congenital or acquired deafness in childhood is now defined in our legal system and thus also in ordinary speech "deaf and dumb." This is a qualification improper at the medical / physiological, socially discriminating on cultural grounds, and above all unfair and detrimental to individual rights of personality to the extent that it is not respectful of the potential reached by the rehabilitative intervention. The term "deaf", in effect, but denoting a disease which, like any other disease, should not in any way undermine the respect and consideration of personal and social who is a carrier (the carriers themselves who have taken a mature conscience if they feel belittled), unfortunately, may still be factors of prejudices born in historical periods in which the disease could effectively determine the exclusion . What, in short, it must be clear is that the rejection of the term "deaf mute" is not derived in any way by not accepting the condition that it wants to distinguish, but simply by its clinical and social skills improper . It is a name, therefore, that, as in any other country socially evolved, and we should be amended to be done in the name of the process of European integration that can not only be economically and politically, but because it is such, in the sense deeper than words, it should also be of cultural homogenization and ethics .
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Technically speaking from the standpoint of medical physiology who is affected by this disability may therefore be more skilled mind "deaf and / or pre-verbal deaf."
The term "preverbal" better than anyone else in our language makes the concept of chrono-functional connections existing between deafness and spoken language: the word "verbal", in fact, has its root, as is known, in the Latin verbum , speech, and the prefix "pre" specifies explicitly that the deafness in existence before the word.
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Changing the definition of "deaf"
in "deaf" or "deaf preverbal"
BILL REPORT
Article 1.
Honourable Senators. - As you know, who is suffering from congenital or acquired deafness in childhood is now defined in our legal system and thus also in ordinary speech "deaf and dumb." This is a qualification improper at the medical / physiological, socially discriminating on cultural grounds, and above all unfair and detrimental to individual rights of personality to the extent that it is not respectful of the potential reached by the rehabilitative intervention. The term "deaf", in effect, but denoting a disease which, like any other disease, should not in any way undermine the respect and consideration of personal and social who is a carrier (the carriers themselves who have taken a mature conscience if they feel belittled), unfortunately, may still be factors of prejudices born in historical periods in which the disease could effectively determine the exclusion . What, in short, it must be clear is that the rejection of the term "deaf mute" is not derived in any way by not accepting the condition that it wants to distinguish, but simply by its clinical and social skills improper . It is a name, therefore, that, as in any other country socially evolved, and we should be amended to be done in the name of the process of European integration that can not only be economically and politically, but because it is such, in the sense deeper than words, it should also be of cultural homogenization and ethics .
... (omitted) ...
Technically speaking from the standpoint of medical physiology who is affected by this disability may therefore be more skilled mind "deaf and / or pre-verbal deaf."
The term "preverbal" better than anyone else in our language makes the concept of chrono-functional connections existing between deafness and spoken language: the word "verbal", in fact, has its root, as is known, in the Latin verbum , speech, and the prefix "pre" specifies explicitly that the deafness in existence before the word.
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