Summary Of Train Go Sorry By Leah Hager Cohen

In the book Train Go Sorry by Leah Hager Cohen, I notice who Sofia is. Her family and herself emigrated from Russia to the United States of America. Sofia and her sister Irina are both deaf. Sofia was the only translator between Irina and her parents didn’t speak English. Sofia attended high school and she was fairly new to the new community of a deaf school. James, a black young boy makes his way to Lexington high school, and author Cohen really explains how he was always absent and failing. When he did show up he was not focused and would sleep. Then he started to dorm there about five days a week and that is when his schooling got better and learning just to read his parents lips. Sofia really shows how she is adapting to the hearing world through sign language, but her mother didn’t learn as much American Sign Language. TTY’s are also described and how it became the most useful thing in the Deaf Community and how it is a great way to communicate. Sometimes, hearing aids aren’t important to others, as it is very important to some. But to people who are dead it can be very useful and understand the hearing world. James usually loses his hearing aid, and he comes from a poor family and a hearing aid can be very expensive. …show more content…
Signing is a whole another world. You can throw one sign, and that sign can be a whole sentence. Children who are deaf and are in school, and for example are taking tests, it can be really difficult for them to understand due to their disability, and being that one sign can be a whole sentence and not making much sense on a test. Cohen once said, “Educators have been failing deaf children for centuries. The history of deaf education has been marked by a single goal: to get deaf people to communicate like hearing