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This looks at the organisations set up to advocate the rights of deaf and hard of hearing people in response to eugenic and economic discrimination against them. We focus first on the Deaf and Dumb Times as a forum for the heterogeneous deaf community with hard of hearing journalists articulating the nature of their exploitation and repression. Next we look at how the National Institute for the Deaf in 1924 emerged to a new umbrella role: one key factor was how the First World War changed the perceptions of deafness through new sympathy for combatant hearing loss. This transformed the advocacy of the pre-War organisations into a more unified national approach to defend the needs of hard of hearing people to trustworthy advice and support.
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Gooday, G., Sayer, K. (2017). Institutionally Organizing for Hearing Loss. In: Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40686-6_7
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