Miller has one very bold idea: He wants to build a new town where there is none, a community that would be carved out of the farm fields and draw hundreds of people from across the nation ... maybe even the world.

What would set this town apart is it would be home to deaf and hard-of-hearing people who want to live together. They'd raise their families here, send their kids to school and share a common language: sign language.

Shouldn't we be working to integrate these people into society better rather than partitioning them off even worse?

Wasn't there a story recently of parents living in some such enclave fighting to keep their children from having surgery to fix a correctible cause of some such handicap?

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