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If you were like me you would agree that our government does an adequate job providing America’s children with information about sexual abuse. ... Well that was me, until I began researching on topics in the Deaf community. That was when I became aware of facts like these: Deaf children are five times more likely to be victims of sexual abuse than hearing children, between 1998 and 2001 160 sex-related accidents were reported at the Washington State school for the Deaf (and at least 100 allegations, including 14 rapes and several attempted rapes, over the preceding decade), at least half of the nation’s schools for the Deaf have been embroiled in controversies about sexual and physical abuse over the past two decades, one study of 482 children at the Center for Abused Handicapped Children at Boys Town Research Hospital revealed that 53.4 percent of the “hearing impaired” children were reported to have been sexually abused, and Tovah Wax, Ph. ... , who is deaf and staff chair of psychological services at NTID/RIT says that approximately 25 percent of their clinical population reports having been sexually abused.
The topic at hand is simply this: Are, and Why are Deaf children more vulnerable to sexual abuse?
Approximate Word count = 1017
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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