Well, there's something, perhaps. I once participated in an online discussion with a deaf woman who was part of the "deaf community." When others on the thread pointed to her slow uptake of others' points, her lack of command of clear language, her conceptual vagueness, and her readiness to react with inappropriate hostility, she admitted that these were qualities that come from the lack of development that occurs in many deaf people because they miss out on critical verbal interaction at early formative stages (very young). Actually, "admit" is the wrong word -- she proclaimed these as common deaf characteristics, and stated that if you wanted online interaction with the deaf, you should expect these characteristics, and adjust for them.
I don't have wide experience with the deaf community, but I do see a certain resemblance between her behavior, which she accepted as normal for people with her disability, and the goings-on at this deaf university. It doesn't seem unreasonable to infer that, for the most isolated deaf people, especially those lacking early interaction, there are emotional and cognitive aspects to the disability. I sympathize, certainly, and have pity, though I confess that I haven't been eager to repeat the interaction with people functioning at that emotional level.
That said, I have also had multiple interactions with less-profoundly deaf people who had better integrated with the hearing community, and whose emotional adjustment seemed entirely normal.
That is because their hearing loss is relatively mild and that allows them to speak and participate in a wider hearing society without having to suffer discrimination or blatant attacks from hearing people who accuse them of "being unable to do anything".
Deafness is an unique disability. Usually a deaf person is capable of doing almost anything, except to hear.
But the problem is that communication is usually difficult even though there are many strategies such as email, AOL Instant Messenger, Text Messaging via cellphone, etc to make it much easier nowadays without having to use an American Sign Language interpreter.
Unfortunately, Deaf people are shunned and treated as outcasts, so naturally it makes sense that Gallaudet University is radicalized in this aspect.
Gallaudet is unlike other universities in that the President is a Cultural leader.
This is where Jane Fernandes failed overwhelmingly.