National Association of the Deaf
http://www.nad.org/
A statement about making adjustments to keep the deaf living as full participants in our society:
https://www.orc-netsafe.com/knowledg...s-deafness.pdf
Also, watch the movie about “Children of a Lesser God”
Silos, standing side by side in a row beside a Prairie train-track. Different silos for different owners and different types of grain. But they never talk to each other. They do not share information; they are hardly aware of each others’ existence.
Silos, with Parkinson’s in one silo all by itself and deafness with difficulty communicating in another silo, and various types of mental disturbances each have their own silos.
We hear of a number of PWP who can’t talk. Would be great if someone could wander down the row of silos and make contact with those other people, deaf, hard of hearing and hard of speaking, and tell them who we are and what do they think we should know about for those of us who are silenced.
Ask them for help, actually.
And who knows, maybe PWP can be helpful to them too.
It would startle people if the two groups started working together in the areas of overlap where they have similar things to cope with.
I appreciate having an all-Parkinson's all-the-time org., but also, it can be valuable to spend some time on things that are different but the same.