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Useful Sources[edit]

So my university's IT and Project Muse are having a disagreement at the moment so I can't get these sources either right now. I put in a ticket so hopefully it gets resolved. In the mean time, if anyone has access to JSTOR or Project Muse, here are some links to articles and books that look promising:

What We Have Done – about the Disability Rights movement with some information on leaders of the deaf aspects and especially the DPN movement.
Deaf President Now! – Contains what may be a very promising chapter on the actions and history that led up to the DPN movement. Also an Epilogue that may talk about later actions and developments
The Disability Rights Movement – A number of chapters on Deaf rights
Effective Deaf Action in the Deaf Community in Uruguay – should have a good overview of a non-US perspective.

Hope that helps others who may have access. I'll keep trying. Wugapodes (talk) 03:29, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the links, I don't have access. I'm not even in university for one thing. However, people who have access should edit the page. Remember, this page is up for anybody to edit! Ms. Andrea Carter here (at your service) 15:43, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have access to Project Muse (my university is connected to it but the login page is broken), but my university does have the Deaf President Now book, and it does cover a lot of the buildup and reasoning behind the protests. Gosh, now I really want to get back into WP editing, because I also have access to JSTOR, at least for one more year... - Purplewowies (talk) 00:46, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Changes[edit]

I've made a number of changes to the article for various reasons and also wanted to make some general comments about the article.

I changed most, if not all of the section headers. Firstly, the entire thing should be "history" as the entire article is the history of the movements. Secondly most of the section headers in the "Perspectives" section were rather non-neutral. I removed the criticism section because criticism should be included in the actual discussion of events, not removed and put in a separate section. I added in a couple section headings that I plan to expand or should be expanded upon
Be careful of becoming non-neutral with the article. While important to members of the Deaf community, it is not the only perspective on the issue, and the purpose of building an encyclopedia is showing all those perspectives with due weight.
There's a very noticeable lack of sources for a lot of this. It may be worthwhile to consider userfying the article until it's in a more complete state.

Just my two cents on this. Wugapodes (talk) 19:46, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Additions to the page[edit]

I'm a student at LSU in a women's studies class and I am going to add to this page. I would like to add in the history of deaf schools and the Connecticut Asylum for the Education of Deaf and Dumb persons, which developed into the American School for the Deaf. The heading for public accommodations has been empty since it was created in August of 2015. I would like to do more research to fill this space as well. I would like to bring to light certain rights that deaf people have such as being handcuffed in the front when being arrested, note takers at universities, sign language interpreters, assistive technology, and more.

Tglori2 (talk) 16:01, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Style problems[edit]

The article is nice to read, nowever it is written in a student's essay-like style. Sentences like "In America we accept this as normal humans variation, and not disability" (see here; removed) are in style inappropriate for wikipedia. Please copyedit. Staszek Lem (talk) 00:12, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Section: Different versions of American Sign Language[edit]

I have removed this section[1][2], as the last half had significant copyright/plagiarism problems and neither the remaining content nor title were relevant to the article. --mathieu ottawa (talk) 12:42, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]