Bioethics For Choosing Disability Research Paper
Bioethics for ‘Choosing Disability’ via
Pre-implantation Diagnosis-
PSY345H5F TERM PAPER
PSY345H5F
Exceptionality: Disability and Giftedness
Dr. Stuart Kamenetsky
Parents all over the world have one great thing in common, wanting the best for their children and giving them great opportunities to pursue their dreams. Children are considered special blessings from God, especially for couples that were bestowed with this blessing after much patience. Furthermore, women who could not conceive were known to be cursed and inferior to other fertile women. Although, there are still many couples whose attempts to conceive a child naturally go vain, medical science has allowed these problems to …show more content…
Similarly, deaf community is bonded together via a signed language, American Sign Language (ASL). Although this characteristic is not the sole criterion, it is viewed as a strong distinction between them and the non-deaf community (Singleton & Tittle, 2000). Furthermore, the deaf community includes members with hearing losses at both levels of extreme, from those who are profoundly deaf to those normal hearing children of the deaf community. There are also people who are hard of hearing individuals that identify themselves as part of the deaf community. Therefore, acceptance and integration into the deaf community is depended upon the attitude and the use of ASL, which means that in order to belong to the deaf community, one does not need to be born deaf. Furthermore, hearing children born to deaf parents are considered bilingual and bicultural since they potentially share the language and culture of their deaf parents and they are inevitably members of the hearing community (Singleton & Tittle, 2000). Although there has been some concern regarding signs of spoken language delay observed in hearing children of non-hearing parents, there is not much evidence to support this claim. Therefore, deliberately removing Jimmy’s cochleas was unnecessary since he did not need to be deaf to belong to the Deaf community. Many deaf parents, occasionally have the misguided notion that they should not sign with their child simply because the child is hearing. Signing with the hearing child, from its birth, not only teaches the hearing child to be fluent in ASL, but also it ensures stronger communication between the parents and the child. Moreover, turning normal hearing children to a deaf child overcomes the possibility of having hearing children that are bilingual and bicultural. Schiff-Myers (2004) asserts that many hearing children of deaf parents evidently develop speech and language
Pre-implantation Diagnosis-
PSY345H5F TERM PAPER
PSY345H5F
Exceptionality: Disability and Giftedness
Dr. Stuart Kamenetsky
Parents all over the world have one great thing in common, wanting the best for their children and giving them great opportunities to pursue their dreams. Children are considered special blessings from God, especially for couples that were bestowed with this blessing after much patience. Furthermore, women who could not conceive were known to be cursed and inferior to other fertile women. Although, there are still many couples whose attempts to conceive a child naturally go vain, medical science has allowed these problems to …show more content…
Similarly, deaf community is bonded together via a signed language, American Sign Language (ASL). Although this characteristic is not the sole criterion, it is viewed as a strong distinction between them and the non-deaf community (Singleton & Tittle, 2000). Furthermore, the deaf community includes members with hearing losses at both levels of extreme, from those who are profoundly deaf to those normal hearing children of the deaf community. There are also people who are hard of hearing individuals that identify themselves as part of the deaf community. Therefore, acceptance and integration into the deaf community is depended upon the attitude and the use of ASL, which means that in order to belong to the deaf community, one does not need to be born deaf. Furthermore, hearing children born to deaf parents are considered bilingual and bicultural since they potentially share the language and culture of their deaf parents and they are inevitably members of the hearing community (Singleton & Tittle, 2000). Although there has been some concern regarding signs of spoken language delay observed in hearing children of non-hearing parents, there is not much evidence to support this claim. Therefore, deliberately removing Jimmy’s cochleas was unnecessary since he did not need to be deaf to belong to the Deaf community. Many deaf parents, occasionally have the misguided notion that they should not sign with their child simply because the child is hearing. Signing with the hearing child, from its birth, not only teaches the hearing child to be fluent in ASL, but also it ensures stronger communication between the parents and the child. Moreover, turning normal hearing children to a deaf child overcomes the possibility of having hearing children that are bilingual and bicultural. Schiff-Myers (2004) asserts that many hearing children of deaf parents evidently develop speech and language