Deafness

Below are all remarks made by Beethoven about his deafness and his progress with it. He wrote it in several different journal entries to a close friend, Karl Amenda. "...Know that my noblest faculty, my hearing, has greatly deteriorated…”(Ludwig Van Beethoven's Biography,n.d.) “...How sad is my lot, I must avoid all things that are dear to me…”(Ludwig Van Beethoven's Biography,n.d.) “...Oh how happy I should be if my hearing were completely restored, then I would hurry to you…;”(Ludwig Van…

In mainstream society, we, as hearing people, tend to consider deafness as a defect. We tend to look at them with a feeling of pity. If they success in the hearing world, we will applaud them for overcoming a severe deficiency. We tend to consider signing as an inferior replacement for “real” language such as English or Spanish. We believe that all Deaf people will try to lip-read when communicating with hearing people as the only way to interact. Finally, when we heard about the devices such as…

Deaf Culture to me is where Deafness is part of someone’s identity, he/she is happy being Deaf and don’t want to be “fixed” and ASL is his/her primary language to communicate. Also, I learned that in the Deaf community, there aren’t just individuals who are Deaf, there also people…

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…

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…

On April 8, American Sign Language (ASL) 1 went to Bakersfield College to watch “I See the Crowd Roar”. “I See the Crowd Roar” is a movie about William “Dummy” Hoy, who was a Deaf baseball player in the late 1800s. William Hoy, was born on May 23, 1862, but he was not born Deaf, he became Deaf when he was around three years old due to meningitis; from that, he lost his hearing. Baseball was starting to pick up as a common past time and thus as a young boy, William wanted to learn and play just…

As a hearing individual who had no interaction with the Deaf community prior to enrolling in American Sign Language courses at the University of Pittsburgh, I previously had essentially no knowledge or understanding of Deaf culture. Gradually, I have increased my knowledge and awareness of Deaf culture and the Deaf community, but I have much more to learn because but there are always questions about Deaf culture and community that I still do not know the answer to. For Hearing People Only by…

Culture; it can a pop culture, an American culture, traditions, values, expectations, it can be anything that you claim. Culture has been defined by many different terms and ways. In this case we as a class or individual have been learning about Deaf Culture and if it is truly a culture. Learning this, yes, Deaf culture is a culture; it is excepted by society, it’s their values, beliefs. Just like the American culture it is accepted by people everywhere, in fact people want to be a part of the…

I decided to study how American sign language has become beneficial in today's society and how can it help with job opportunities.Why even learn it or teach it in the first place. American sign language like any other sign language takes time to learn. Signing it and making sure you done it correctly is also hard. It even takes time to be able to interpret it. To begin let’s look at the beginning of sign language the history of it. Sign language had a very unique history of how it came to be. It…

In 1988, a court case was presented to the Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy and the House Subcommittee on Select Education. Several disabled advocates took the stand as witnesses argued about building and communication accessibility as well constant prejudice attacks on the disabled. After that, Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Tom Harkin created bill that would be Congress's final product of the ADA. Harkin really used this time to emphasize on the importance of the ADA. Harkin became…