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Letter: Deaf to the benefits

Published 13 December 2006

From Leslie Courtis

I have a cochlear implant and have benefited enormously. Why are people like me never given a voice to set against the genocide-invoking whingeing of the “deaf community” (25 November, p 16)?

Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK

Issue no. 2582 published 16 December 2006

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