Why Music Is Important To Me

Imagine Driving down the road with the windows down and your favorite song on the radio and everything is just so relaxed. Now Imagine one day you can’t do this anymore. Can you think of something that you love? Now imagine if that thing you loved was taken away or imagine even worse that you never could experience the thing you loved again. I love music. I love the way the notes dance around the lyrics. I love that some music can calm me when I am upset or get me pumpin when I’m jammin out. Music is very important to me. Additionally, I also love being outdoors. Something about the sounds makes me feel relaxed no matter where I am. To think that I could have been born and never knew a lyric, the song of a bird or the sound of a rain storm on a tin roof. To me that would be devastating. I started thinking about the fact that ageing is …show more content…
I know that having children is hard and sometimes parents forget things and if you forget your childs charger they have no way of communicating with you unless they know sign language. Most people don’t teach their children sign language because they want their children to be a part of their community and be able to speak and hear and function just like everyone else. There is a long list of programs designed for deaf or hard hearing children (Schools and Programs for Deaf…..United States 2014). These programs offer a range of opportunity to exceed but parents just want their kids to be like everyone else so instead of embracing the different the put them in the schools with everyone else and expect them to function the same way. By doing this they are taking their child away from the support of the deaf community and putting them in the hearing community where they are treated as broken or