"Deaf Poets Society: for Writers with Disabilities"

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by Corinne Segal

‘Someone is always trying to control our narrative’

The manifesto for the Deaf Poets Society, published in June, calls disability justice “the civil rights movement you’ve never heard of.” Some of its accomplishments are little noticed by able-bodied people: entrance ramps, wide hallways, even closed captioning are all results of efforts to make daily life more accessible.

But when it comes to literature, people with disabilities are rarely represented, poetry editor Ava C. Cipri said. “It’s very easy to be discouraged in the larger literary community when there’s so little representation in terms of disabled individuals,” she said.

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Use the passage below from “Deaf Poets Society” to answer the question.

What is the central idea of this passage?

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During the 1990s, people with disabilities began to organize.
During the 1990s, people with disabilities began to organize.

The term disabled has different meanings to different people.
The term disabled has different meanings to different people.

People with disabilities often have a difficult time telling their own stories.
People with disabilities often have a difficult time telling their own stories.

The Deaf Poets society has been met with strong and effective opposition.

Answer 1

The central idea of the passage is:

People with disabilities often have a difficult time telling their own stories.

This is supported by the mention of the lack of representation in literature and the challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in expressing their narratives.