Personal Narrative: My First Deaf Event

Improved Essays
For my first Deaf event of my ASL 2 year I went to Halloween Special at Thompson Hall. On the drive there I was pretty nervous because I am not a fan of haunted houses and scary stuff like that, but I was also nervous to just be at the event, even though I had already attended one event last year I was still not completely comfortable with my signing. The only reason for that is that i know that I do not know all the signs that they would be using but I know that I would figure it out using context clues and asking questions. Walking up to the event was a little confusing, only for the reason that we went to what we thought was the front door but it was locked and then we tried the back door, locked, but then someone walking to there car

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Deaf Like Me Book Report

    • 791 Words
    • 4 Pages

    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.…

    • 791 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    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.…

    • 1599 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I was nervous because we had just started to sign, even though I felt comfortable with what I have learned, I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to communicate or understand what was signing to me. On the other hand, I was excited because I wanted to go and sign with other people and use what I have learned as well as learn new signs. I was hoping that there would be a lot of people signing so that I would have a chance to sign with someone and see how well my skills in the real world were. However, I was disappointed because I didn’t realize that almost everyone attending the event were ASL 1 students and since we were in the theater, the layout didn’t really give us a chance to sign with each other. I also noticed that the ASL classes stayed together and didn’t really socialize with other classes.…

    • 1054 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The book our class was given to read is called “Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World” by Leah Hager Cohen. The writing is about what she had seen living in a Deaf school since a child, and what struggles the Deaf community has. She lived in Lexington School for the Deaf, which she always felt at home, comfortable, and knew the lay of the land. She considered Lexington to be her “red-bricked castle, her seven acre kingdom.” This is where she lived with her brother Max, and her mother and father.…

    • 1549 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jane Fernandes has an interesting and dynamic history in the Deaf community. In Worcester, Massachusetts, she was born Deaf to a Deaf mother and hearing father. She did not immediately start to learn American Sign Language – her mother taught her how to speak, and she became a very proficient lip-reader. It wasn’t until she entered graduate school at the University of Iowa that she began to learn how to sign. Fernandes has overcome a lot of adversity in her professional life.…

    • 699 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Through Deaf Eyes Summary

    • 1422 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Through Deaf Eyes was an extremely enlightening documentary about deaf life in America. The film begins with the question, what do you think it would be like being a deaf person? They explain that, whenever you ask a hearing person this question they respond with a lot of “can’ts”. I can’t, I can’t I can’t. Deaf people, however, do not think like that, they think of all the things they can do.…

    • 1422 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    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.…

    • 357 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    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).…

    • 1084 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Education is easily one of the most taken for granted privileges of the modern world. What is seen now as a form of mental torture by the average student was not even an option for people with hearing disabilities for a long time. Before the early 19th century, it was believed by a large percentage of the U.S. population that deaf individuals could not be educated. This was primarily because hearing people could not communicate with deaf people. Because of the communication barrier, unfair assumptions were made about the mental abilities of those who were deaf.…

    • 1205 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A Deaf Event I took an American Sign Language class last semester, Fall2014 at San Bernardino Valley College. The teacher had us choose an event to attend for a quiz grade. She had given us many events to choose from. The one I chose was Barnes and Noble “ASL story signing.” I had chosen this event because it was the only one that worked with my schedule and also because the story signing was being told by deaf/hearing impaired children.…

    • 1131 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The sponge earplugs are the awkward azure in my trumpet case. Apparently they do not fit with the trumpet gold. But by contrasting, they do shimmer the gold. I took out the two of my small blue sponge earplugs from the case. I squeezed the sponges as hard as I could, plugged one into my left ear, and spun it until it was perfectly fitted in.…

    • 756 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Monday I was at Abner Creek Academy assisting with hearing and vision screenings. This was a great experience for me because I have never participated in doing these screenings. On Tuesday I was back at Meyer Center for the last time. Last week at Meyer Center I was with the 3 to 4 year old group, so today I chose to be with the smaller age group which was 1 year old. This was a very unique group of children with a lot of different conditions to see.…

    • 216 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Most people want to have the life of getting married and having children while settling down into a nice house. If you do have children, most parents want theirs to be very successful. I bet you didn’t know that 2-3 people out of every 1,000 people in the US are born with a detectable hearing loss in one or both ears. This may not seem like a lot but that number adds up. In fact, 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents.…

    • 1231 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Hello and welcome to my story. now let us begin now shall we? so it all started when i was born my parents were nice people when i was born one of the things they told me i did i used to run around and not do the normal things a baby was or should i say could be doing i would be able to have put on my own close and put on masks and i would find ways to scare my mom and dad to the point they just plain old fall down now this is where things got interesting my first day of school it was a tiny old school like any other but it had a very interesting boy coming to school that day my mom is super germaphobe so she does not like me riding the bus…

    • 2956 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I was in the third grade my old teacher notice that I have a trouble with reading and writing because I could not understand because it was very difficult to me. I’m mean I did have my hearing aids since I was born with hearing loss but not born deaf. However, that was not the problem. Therefore, I went to tell my parents that I am having a difficult at school. Therefore, they decided to talk to a doctor specialist.…

    • 1051 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays