Analysis Of Deaf Again

Community, acceptance, pride and early linguistic intervention are the key issues that I found during my reading of Deaf Again. Our author’s experiences at Gallaudet University and the PSD finally gave him the feeling of existing and community. For the first time, he craved challenges and joined organizations because he did not feel left out. Drolsbaugh has now learned how to live life and was a big advocate of deaf children having every opportunity to interact with others like themselves. Without this exposure, Mark Drolsbaugh felt emotionally and cognitively much younger than his chronological age as compared to his hearing counterparts. Deaf children who do have these opportunities will fully accept who they are with pride in their culture and realize that they do not need to “be fixed” or that their lack of hearing is “bad”. They understand that they do not need to do their best to be as hearing as possible, as our author experienced
Lastly, “no language equals no learning” (Deaf Again, Mark Drolsbaugh, pg. 154). Statics show that deaf children with deaf parents excel beyond those with hearing parents. Since over 90% of all learning happens at home, strong …show more content…
The story used as an example of Imputed Functional Limitations was shocking. It was about a deaf woman, (Drolsburgh’s mother) who was perceived as not being able to take the responsibility of caring for her own child. It is sometimes implied that because a person cannot hear, they lack intelligence or implies an inferior status. I recall a time when a deaf person was referred to as “deaf and dumb”. The premise behind this term was that since deaf persons could not hear or speak, they could not express themselves, and therefore must lack cognitive abilities. This discrimination correlates to experiences in my life that would be considered an Imputed Functional