The Weekend Selection: The different strokes edition

Posted on November 2, 2013 by



Here are the top five new blogposts from the week based on pageviews. Have a browse and tell your friends.

  1. The Secret Deafie: “I learned long ago that only other parents of deaf children really understand me now”
  2. Jen Dodds: Why do people assume there’s something wrong with being deaf?
  3. Melinda Hildebrandt: Why I’m trying to give my daughter access to the Deaf community
  4. Deaf News: Agency told to reduce number of deaf residents – in housing complex for deaf people
  5. Deaf woman becomes a nurse, twenty years after being told she couldn’t

And the top three not from the previous seven days

  1. Charlie Swinbourne: The 10 annoying habits of hearing people
  2. Mark Levin: Let’s eradicate the term ‘hearing impaired’
  3. Charlie Swinbourne: Trying (and failing) to get my hearing aids fixed

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