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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. When the doctors asks if Louise was pregnant she informed the doctor that if…

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…

Many colleges and universities do not know what to do with a hearing impaired students because they are not aware of their needs. When a student with a hearing impairment comes to their school, it seems to be a new concept to them, the administration must learn what that student’s needs. When students have a cochlear that connects to their brain, a hearing aid that is an ear piece Students start to wonder what is in there, ear and will ask them about it. Some students ask reasonable questions;…

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…

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…

Sound and Fury The Cochlear Implant will help the hearing impaired to once again hear; but controversy between a family and the treatment and the established a culture within the hearing impaired community would send shock ways thru the hearing impaired society; How the deaf reveal their own identity for themselves; the deaf society don’t consider it handicap and most have a successful job. Peter worked for a successful Wall Street firm, but peter would never move up into higher position; as…

Not being able to hear is something that many people across the globe have to go through on a daily basis. In the United States alone, “Over 5% of the world’s population – 360 million people – has disabling hearing loss (328 million adults and 32 million children) (WHO). While five percent does not seem like a whole lot, three hundred sixty million is a fairly large group of people that are hearing disabled. Regardless of whether or not that person can hear at all, or is hard of hearing, the…