Silenced Film Analysis

Increasingly, deaf students are educated in mainstream school environments. This runs into problems with the demand of forming friendships with their hearing peers. When children that are deaf attend mainstream schools they have to have coping strategies when they encounter bullying and other problems in school. A study done by League for the Hard of Hearing in New York found that there is a gender difference in effectiveness of coping strategies used by the 35 deaf students attending a mainstream school setting (D, 2003). Deaf girls were found to be more confident and asked for clarifications on their work and were comfortable playing alone or playing with hearing students. In contrast, the boys were found to struggle with their relationships with hearing students. In the movie Silenced we found that the deaf boy Min-Soo struggled with making friends, asking for help, and often spent his time alone. We know that he was abused severely and wasn’t able to cope with this because he committed suicide at the end of the movie. Overall, the students Yoo-Ri, Yeon-Doo, and Min-Soo …show more content…
There are high rates of psychopathological issues which can occur with severe deafness or certain hearing impairments (van Gent, 2011). Children struggle with interacting with hearing people and this can represent chronic stressful conditions that put strain on their self-esteem and emotional problems. Deaf adolescents that have normal intelligence tend to have emotional mental health problems which correlated with stress from their school setting where they were bullied. When In-Ho first started working at the school he noticed that the children had mental health issues. His assumptions were correct that they had problems with abuse at the school which caused the children to have self-concept issues as well as problems with coping and their