| This video is by a deaf psychiatrist, Dr. Sanjay Gulati, late-deafened, who has worked with deaf clients and their families for the last 25 years. This is available in ASL, subtitles, and captioning. He discusses the long-term consequences of limited or delayed language acquistion in deaf children, concerning theory of mind and self-agency, and includes more recent studies on language acquistion and cites his own clinical study measuring language deprivation and psychosocial difficulties. The results are sobering. I have said that depriving deaf infants of sign language is child abuse. Dr. Gulati works with these infants grown up (youth through adulthood), and he with other researchers found a very strong effect for language deprivation and being a danger to society or to themselves. He explains how language deprivation destroys the full capacity of the growing brain, and says bluntly that deaf folks with language deprivation syndrome often wind up institutionalized in group homes at a cost of 400,000 yearly. I will contact him to see if he would consent to me making a full transcript of his lecture. |
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