In Introduction To American Deaf Culture, Thomas K. Holcomb provides an insightful view of the Deaf culture and paints an inclusive picture of how the Deaf community functions and thrives in the world. In each chapter, proficient evidence is supplied to draw the audience (myself in this experience) in to the topics and make them think more thoughtfully about how the Deaf culture should be viewed. From the start, the audience is brought into this book on a personal level with an introduction from the author. In this intro, the major points of this book are previewed to prepare the audience for what is coming. The second chapter defines culture and gives examples of how the Deaf culture fits in with the others.…
“See What I Mean” In the video “See What I Mean” I noted numerous differences between the hearing and deaf communities. During the video in a class of hearing students and teacher, a student arrived late to class and when he arrived he spoke nothing, made no eye contact, did not disrupt the class, and the teacher did not acknowledge his tardiness. In a deaf class, the student arrived late and the teacher stopped class to ask why he was late, made eye contact with each other, and the student explained himself and told the class valuable information about traffic delaying him from arriving to class. In another scenario two hearing friends when departing, said their goodbyes quick.…
Many times, the Deaf are not treated as “real” people, their opinions and desires are overlooked. The Deaf and hearing impaired have rights to tell their thoughts, needs, and wants just as hearing people have the opportunity to. My connection to the videos was quite more than I expected. I have empathy over their situation, because as a community they know what is beneficial for them and what is not. Having a Deaf president meant a lot to their community, because only Deaf people can fully understand the experience of other Deaf people.…
Web Search on the Deaf Culture TEDxStanford (2013) presents Rhodes Scholar Rachel Kolb, addressing the issue of how hearing-impaired people navigate in an audible world. In this particular video, Kolb, shares her experience as an individual who was born deaf to two parents with hearing ability. Several points included in the lecture were profound and accurate.…
The video I have selected from the Gallaudet video catalog was by Karen Payne, “Why I Came to Gallaudet” and her new journey inside Deaf Culture. Karen Payne is an older woman who was diagnosed with Meniere’s disease four years ago, and that is a disease that destroys ones hearing permanently. Knowing that she will soon enough lose her ability to hear she thought it would be in her best interest if she moved to a Deaf community. Karen Payne and her husband along side of her moved near Gallaudet, where she was very eager to attend. She applied to the University of Gallaudet and waited quite some time to hear back from them, but sure enough she was accepted and could not be happier.…
Deaf Community Club For Deaf Community Club has plans to meeting always on every day of the month because went to my first time. When I started is summer time went to a member of the Deaf Community Club (DC2) that mean is part 2 with discusses plan to help. Only have once time went to general meeting is memberships will join us to active or associate. About have a meeting is the club of active members with DC squired is composed a lot of different way. It's annual to training for business meeting of the club is discretion.…
Personal Statement I chose to pursue a Deaf Studies degree because I am very passionate about advocating for the Deaf community. Initially, I was a Communication Studies major. However, upon taking ASL classes and other Deaf culture classes I developed great admiration for the culture. My plan is to work in higher education and be the dean of a college. This is important because the more power one has the more they can do to benefit a larger population.…
The deaf culture is a very independent, tight- knit community, despite the fact of not being able to hear or being able to hear clearly. Twenty- first century technology, in this day in time could literally assist anyone and everyone not just the deaf. Well over 21 million Americans have a hearing loss, and this results in many everyday challenges. Communication may be the biggest challenge of all especially like getting and giving information and exchanging ideas. I believe that the deaf has a variety of neat, helpful, and even life- saving pieces of technology.…
What would it be like if all the movies made were deaf movies? Would it change the way you think about all movies ever made? So how exactly are Hollywood hearing movies and a deaf film the same or different? Next off the main aspects of this essay I think there are a wide variety of similarities and differences throughout both, and it might be surprising how.…
Deaf Since Birth: At first I was so confused when she said she was actually hoping for her kid to be Deaf, but the way she put it made perfect sense and definitely gave me a better understanding of what Deaf culture is. “When I think, I see ASL signs in my head.” was fascinating, and something I’d always been curious about. I loved how Michelle said her family treats being born deaf the same way anyone would regard being born with blonde hair or brown-eyes, and I wish all parents could be this accepting of their children being born different, whether deaf or otherwise. The fact that she said that if given the chance, she would rather not be able to hear surprised me, it was very thought provoking-…
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).…
When I first heard that I needed to go to a deaf event I was a little nervous. I felt like I was not going to like it and or Feel like everyone was going to talk about me. I heard that some people in the deaf community are rude to hearing people. So I was just hoping to be accepted as a person who is learning ASL. I was very skeptical to what I was about to embark on.…
Watching the documentary Through Deaf Eyes was extremely informative. I was able to experience a side of deaf culture that I did not really know existed. It was incredible to see how far the deaf culture has come and learn where it came from. The documentary showed me just how cruel society could be when you are not seen as “normal”. The deaf community just wanted to be understood and treated with respect.…
In the lesson 5 American sign language video "What it like to be Deaf", a man who appears to be deaf starts to sign and says he is going to share his experience of growing up deaf with us. Afterwards, he added that this videos purpose is to educate and spread awareness to the hearing community. Thereafter he comes back on saying that he is here to help people understand deaf people and he was adopted by a family who have help him grow up but never had a real bond with him. Subsequently, he begins to talk about his personal story about growing up deaf, he adds that one day he was watching a movie with his family but he couldn’t hear what was going on, he than noticed that his family was laughing but he didn’t know why so he asked them what did…
Being deaf in a world that most of the people are hearing and don’t understand the deaf culture is very hard to live in. In my opinion I don’t know how they live or what they do or how they feel because no one told me their life style. I though their life is just the same as mine just have to go by way a different way but I didn’t know coving your mouth or whispering or not paying attention with your eye is distrustful because us hearing people can talk with looking at some in the eye or whispering to not be too loud. The video explain how a man life in deaf world is not easy and how people treat him very different because he deaf and that his parents didn’t teach him what the real world is like he had to learn for himself.…