Audiogram

When educating children who are deaf and hard of hearing, there are a plethora of practices and teaching strategies available to educators. While some of these practices are based primarily on anecdotal evidence, others, such as the practice of Reading-aloud, have a fairly strong research base to work with. Although reading a story aloud to children seems like a fairly simple task, it is actually an incredibly important tool for teaching learners who are deaf and hard of hearing. Literacy…

Deaf history month is celebrated every year from March 13th to April 13th according to byui.edu. Sign Language is a big part of our country; it’s the fourth most common language and is over 200 years old. Also, in the US alone, there are more than 1,000,000 people over the age of five who are deaf (research.gallaudet.edu)! Although all of these people are unable to hear sound; they have a life that is just as rich as any hearing person. Many deaf people are involved in the communities of the…

Population Assignment 1. The population I selected is children who are deaf. 2. a. It can be very difficult to distinguish the origin of a child’s hearing loss. One reason is if there were difficulties during the pregnancy or birthing process. For instance, if the mother contracted a severe illness like German measles it could influence the baby’s hearing. If the mother consumes a certain kind of medicine, such as ototoxic drugs, it can transfer into the womb and negatively affect the baby’s…

The American Sign Language (ASL) Club made its debut at Ramapo College educating the community during an event associated with Disability Awareness Month. “We believe in more than fighting the stigma. We want to push for equality and respect,” said junior Kira Abrams, president of ASL Club. “We hope to achieve an environment where disability is seen as a different and equally valid way of navigating the world, where a person who requires some accommodations to do well in an environment…

On September 6, 2016 I attended the Leaders in Family Education (LIFE) professional student organization meeting. The meeting was located in Matthews Hall 311, there we were told about the main goals of LIFE, how to join, and how we would benefit from participating in this organization. We also enjoyed a presentation on hearing loss vs. deafness lead by representatives from the Speech and Hearing Sciences program at UNT. I found out about this opportunity through my classes and thought that it…

Mark Drolsbaugh’s autobiography, Deaf Again goes through his life journey as a deaf individual who tries to find his Deaf identity in the hearing world. Mark was born as a hearing person, but as he got older he gradually started to lose his hearing which made it difficult for him to fit in as “normal child.” Some of the challenges that Mark faced in his life were conformity, isolation, communication barrier and the delay of having an ASL education. Mark felt like an outsider for the first time…

While analyzing four scholarly articles regarding my proposal that music benefits health, nearly all the sources were thorough and provided evidence and facts that supported my proposal. The four sources were all found in scholarly academic journals. Two of the articles supported my proposal and the other two displayed issues in music and how it affects our health negatively. An analysis of the strong and weak points of each source is required to derive a sufficient conclusion. In the article,…

Deaf Culture. Deafness. ASL. Deaf People. All those thing catch my attention. People think that ASL is not a language and that deaf people don 't have a culture. Many people see Deaf people as “special ed or dummies” when they don’t know anything about them or their world. I have learned a lot about deafness and the culture it has. Deafness is always intriguing to me, it always catches my attention. I don 't know what it is about deafness and ASL but I love it. I 've always wanted to learn ASL…

The way Deaf people are presented in television and movies has a huge impact on the way hearing society perceives the Deaf community. Often times, Deaf people are represented as two dimensional characters defined by their deafness but Hush breaks that mold. Hush is an intense thriller that centers on a young Deaf woman who must fight for her life while being antagonized by a masked serial killer. The main character, Maddie, is a Deaf author who uses American Sign Language (ASL) as her primary…

A community is a group of people who live or work together in the same area. Also having a particular characteristic in common, such as a social, religious,or other group sharing common interests as well. People in communities might have the same schools in common, speak the same language and do other common things together. Community is used to categorize people with the same characteristics, but who also have many differences from each other. Different types of communities are Muslim community…