These are not new issues. Every non-profit organization that is called to provide services to people who are deaf, hard of hearing, ..... faces these conflicting interests, beliefs, and cultures.

The trends point to a declining deaf community, because parents of younger deaf children will choose the cochlear implant route if they can. This leads to a language community, the deaf community, the signing community, that is both separate and isolated, but also living in fear.

Labour disputes like this are hardly surprising.