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Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.33,0:00:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sofia Kolotourou] Hi! My name is Sofia and I want to tell you about post-linguistic deafness.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.22,0:00:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When someone is born hearing normally, without any problem, s/he learns to speak.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.86,0:00:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time s/he is 3, a kid has learned to speak very well.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.79,0:00:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, if someone loses his/her hearing at the age of 3-4 or more, this means that by then s/he speaks normally.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.65,0:00:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what is called post-linguistic deafness.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.19,0:00:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who are post-linguistic deaf speak almost naturally.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.10,0:01:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously, with the passing of years without hearing their own voice, they can't give proper rhythm to their speech,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.27,0:01:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as other people do, so their speech sounds odd.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.10,0:01:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Post-linguistic deaf people go to normal schools where they communicate with the other children by reading their lips.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.46,0:01:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of them don't know sign language at all, as they don't need it to communicate.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.94,0:01:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The present number of postlinguistic deaf people in Greece is unknown, because their are no records about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.54,0:01:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deaf people's organizations only address people who know sign language,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.43,0:01:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in practice, the needs of post-linguistic deaf people are not covered by any institution or other official authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.97,0:01:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As people don't know about post-linguistic deafness, they are surprised when they meet a deaf person who speaks
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.04,0:01:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are very baffled because they think that the person in front of them "cannot" be deaf, as s/he speaks.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.85,0:02:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore post-linguistic deaf people are doubly excluded because on the one hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.72,0:02:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hearing people find it hard to accept them in their group, because they don't know how to communicate with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.80,0:02:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on the other hand, deaf people who only communicate in sign language claim that they are the only "real deaf"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.23,0:02:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that post-linguistic deaf people "should" learn sign language
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.39,0:02:28.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stop communicating in the only way they learned as children, i.e. with their mouth!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.24,0:02:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the post-linguistic deaf, the presence of an interpreter is meaningless, because they don't know sign language.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.27,0:02:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They want other things: In spoken language, they want the speaker to enunciate slightly more slowly and clearly than usually.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.63,0:02:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They need good light so that they can read his/her lips. And where this is feasible,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.06,0:03:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they want speeches to be distributed in writing, e.g. in meetings, presentations, discussions, as well as in theaters.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.39,0:03:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moreover, it is very easy to distribute written texts, as they are all computer-written and can be printed by pressing a key.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.10,0:03:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year ago, the post-linguistic deaf became organized in a facebook groub called "Κουφοχωριό" (Deaf Village)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.60,0:03:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This group does not exclude the participation of pro-linguistic deaf people, and it encourages the participation of people with cochlear implants.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.26,0:03:41.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cochlear implants are acoustic devices that are surgically inserted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.73,0:03:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children who get a cochlear implant when they are very small are very likely to develop
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.77,0:03:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language and speech, and to speak exactly like the post-linguistic deaf (they even often speak on the phone)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.13,0:04:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time that people should learn about post-linguistic deafness and the swift development of cochlear implants.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.27,0:04:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The image of deafness is changing in the 21st century, and is very different from the stereotypes in our barins.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.84,0:04:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Sofia, I'm 39, I'm a cytologist physician and writer, and I have been post-linguistically deaf since I wa very younf.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.86,0:04:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2010, I wrote the book «Κουφός είσαι ρε; Δεν ακούς» ("Are you deaf or what? Can't you hear?") published by KaPsiMi, where I speak about events in my life that are related to post-linguistic deafness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.30,0:04:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2011 I created the Facebook group Κουφοχωριό (Deaf Village) for the above-mentioned reasons, as well as, recently, a forum with the same name.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.21,0:04:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Write "Κουφοχωριό" in Google and come and find us to learn more about post-linguistic deafness
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.14,0:04:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also about the developments in cochlear implants and auxiliary technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.88,0:05:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Via the internet and medical progress, we deaf people can communicate successfully too, without intermediaries.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.24,0:05:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deafness does not mean isolation, as it used to. Come and find us in order to learn what deafness means in the 21st century.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.80,0:05:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.