Deaf Like Me In the book “Deaf Like Me,” by Thomas S. Spardley and James P Spardley, a father and uncle a go on a journey to share the struggle of teaching their deaf daughter/ niece how to communicate. Thomas and Louise live in Minnesota with their son Bruce. Thomas is a teacher at Carleton College, and Louise is a stay at home mom. Louise, the mother, finds out that while she is pregnant she developed German measles.…
Introduction to American Deaf Culture by Thomas Holcomb begins with a graphic celebrating Deaf culture to set the tone for the whole book. Holcomb discusses the difference between being deaf and the Deaf community, and the difference between community and culture. He uses specific examples to show how Deaf culture adheres to all five hallmarks that make up a culture. In the third chapter, he defines many of the terms and labels used to describe deaf people, including hearing-impaired and hard of hearing. Within this section, a helpful guide of appropriate terms and inappropriate terms is provided so hearing people understand what is acceptable when describing a deaf person.…
Beginning at a young age Mark Drolsbaugh was made to feel inadequate as a person due to his deafness. He explained he was not allowed to learn or use sign language and was forced to learn speech. Doing what they thought was best for him, his family mistook his deafness as a handicap and vehemently pushed him to be better no matter how great his success in the hearing world. Mark exceled in the hearing world academically but failed socially. In Deaf Again, Mark analyzes and discusses the psychosocial and educational aspects of deafness by using experiences he and his family encountered over a 20 year period.…
For example, we host Deaf Awareness Week every year in end of March to early April. We also held sign practices twice each week and the event chairs hosted various events that help to promote for the people who are interested to gain the access of chances to socialized with each other while learning Deaf culture at same time. Our group is more of leisure-oriented with service-oriented and social-oriented; we attempt to make DRA a place where the members can have fun while learning about the Deaf culture and American Sign Language. We attempt to tie the gap between Deaf and hearing world by educating them in Deaf culture and the methods of communication. We also…
The foundation for Gallaudet first began in 1856 when Amos Kendall donated two acres of land in Washington, D.C. for a school and housing to be built for twelve deaf and six blind students. In 1857, Kendall convinced Congress to incorporate what was then known as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind. The first superintendent was to be Edward Miner Gallaudet, the son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet who founded the first school for the Deaf in the United States. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed the authorization of the institution to grant college degrees. Gallaudet was made president, and he presided over the first commencement in June 1869 when three graduates received diplomas signed by President…
The enrollment at the Maryland School for the Deaf has continued to grow during the 1960s. A young teacher…
As much as the deaf culture seeks to be infused and accepted in the society, it stands as a distinctive aspect from other cultures. One special aspect is the means of communication and their cultural way of carrying out their day-to-day activities. Also, once an individual’s associates, identifies and enters into the deaf culture, they will always be part of the deaf culture and by large, the deaf society. Therefore, an outstanding aspect with the deaf culture is that one does not retire from been in the deaf culture and thus there is no aging out.…
The book “Deaf Like Me” by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley intrigued because it was about a hearing family that had a deaf daughter. I was also interested that the book was written in the perspective of the father. The statistic that vast majority of deaf children are born to hearing parents has always made me fascinated with what each hearing parent has done for their deaf child. I knew that this story would most likely have a happy ending considering the title “Deaf Like Me” I made the inference that maybe his daughter would find inclusion from being emerged in the culture of deaf individuals. “Deaf Like Me” followed the story of the parents Tom and Louise Spradley in the early 1960s.…
Deaf Again is an autobiography of the life of Mark Drolsbaugh. Mark analyzes and discusses the psychosocial and educational aspects of deafness by using experiences and his family’s encounters throughout his life. He begins with Sherry, Mark’s mother’s experience of his birth to exemplify how the deaf are treated due to the communication gap between the deaf and hearing. He then discusses experiences that impacted his psychosocial, emotional, and educational development from the time he was diagnosed deaf as a child through to his adult years when he fell in love with deaf culture. Mark was born hearing and began losing his hearing in the first grade.…
In the book, The Deaf Community in America: History in the making by Meliva M. Nomeland and Ronald E. Nomeland, discusses the drastic changes in past years for the deaf community. Chapter three talks about Edward Miner Gallaudet and Alexander Graham Bell. They are two extremely different men born ten years apart and expressing very opposite views on the deaf community. Gallaudet and Bell were actively involved in the Washington area as well as sharing the same friend group. When the topic of deaf education would come up, the two men would have heated arguments about how it should be taught.…
As we discuss communication disorders, it is important to discuss hearing disorders as well; it is essential to include hearing loss and deafness in the conversation in this course, seeing as these two things influence the ability to speak and communicate orally, seeing that hearing helps with acquiring and producing speech and language. A deaf person is a minority in the hearing world and often struggles to exchange information, ideas, feelings with those who are hearing. Thus, it is important to be informed about auditory issues and deaf culture. And the book is another resource to assist in gathering the knowledge on these issues and on the community to best serve individuals who are deaf, to remain cognizant of culturally diverse children and adults and to remain culturally competent. Train Go Sorry is also a reminder that deaf people are people first, just an everyone else who do not fit within the norm.…
The article “Teaching Students with Hearing Losses” by Alice-Ann Darrow states that there are students with hearing loss that enjoy music and even learning about it. This article indicates different types of methods that should be used, it also includes different ways of music participation. The author explains how many people suffer from hearing loss. Darrow introduces different types of researchers that have to do with strategies for music training. There are plenty of difficulties that come with teaching students with disabilities and hearing loss, many teachers in the music department often do not know how to include the students.…
The Youtube video “Through Deaf Eyes’” is about how Deaf culture has changed in a positive manner throughout the years. It highlights special moments in Deaf culture, such as society attempting to teach Deaf people how to speak verbally, how Deaf people are no longer discriminated in today’s culture, and how technology has impacted the Deaf community. This documentary is a very educational video about the Deaf culture and how it has evolved. This video made me come to a realization of the Deaf Culture and how it has changed drastically over the years. In the 1800’s, Deaf people were completely misunderstood and were often seen as strange or mentally retarded (ASL IVC).…
However, Kisor’s parents are not deaf, and so end up providing him with resources that assimilate him into the hearing world. With such integration, Kisor’s book really becomes about how hearing parents can raise a deaf child who is, by society’s definition, successful in the hearing world. To begin, Kisor’s parents had the option of placing him in a school for the deaf. The start of deaf education began in the 1500s, which was a huge leap as it was historically believed that deaf people could not be educated. Later, in 1760, the first school for the deaf was created by Charles de L’Eppe.…
The Deaf event that I attended was a silent dinner held at Starbucks coffee. Before I arrived to the silent dinner, I was not sure what to expect or how much of the conversation I would be able to keep up with. When I was at the silent dinner, I was greeted kindly by those around me, and had the chance to meet many other signers that were a mix of both fellow Liberty students, and other people from the local community. The silent dinner that I attended was different than every other dinner event that I have attended, from the introduction that we made to the conversations and small talk that we shared.…