According to Roos Watte, the society is always discriminatory against deaf people. After noticing that the ticket her dad had bought was for people with handicap, the speaker was astonished by how people view the deaf. In “Bridging the Gap Between the Deaf and Hearing Community”, the speaker states that deaf people are contented and ought not to be treated different from others because they are neither armless or crippled. Furthermore, she states that deaf people do not feel disabled because they can easily communicate with each other through the Dutch sign language. The society profiles deaf people and create limits that deny them equality in jobs, communication, and accessibility of education.
Individual creation of employment is the most interesting issue discussed in this Ted talk. The deaf population should be in the frontline of demanding fair treatment by society, most importantly, through displaying their ability and determination to create employment for themselves and people of a similar kind. Roos Watte leads by example and sues the government with aim of getting fair standards for communication at work.
Every society is made up of people with common goals, who communicate through language to ensure achievement of the goals. In the current society, enhancement of sign language has accommodated deaf people and allowed them to share their views on different matters. The sign language, just like other languages, aids the deaf to air out their views and ideas independently. Furthermore, the society has come to acceptance with deafness and has accommodated sign languages in the modern education systems (Dawes et al., 2019). Sign language is an art which one cannot understand without practice. Since culture and art are dynamic, some policies need to be changed so as to fully acknowledge deaf people as part of the society.
Reference
Dawes, T., Alves, G., Castro, H., Silva, A., & Fragel-Madeira, L. (2019). Using a low-cost playful strategy to present sign language on non-formal educational spaces. Creative Education, 10(06), 1230-1241. Web.