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many things that I did not know before about hearing loss and Deaf Culture and have also learned what life is like for the people that starred in the film. I really enjoy watching videos online of CJ Jones. Whenever I have free time I find some of his videos on youtube and I like to show them to friends. CJ is a deaf actor and comedian that is very popular…

sickness that they have to overcome. In the article “Victims from Birth” founding Editor Wendy McElroy, provides the story of Gauvin Hughes McCullough, whose deaf parents deny him a hearing aid, hoping he would grow up and be just like them. The lesbian couple were delighted to have Gauvin, their child to be born with a hearing disability because he would most likely be involved with the deaf culture. We see how parents want their child to be exactly like them but that isn’t right. A child is…

the society, an individual develops a certain identity. In this situation, the paper seeks to examine the deaf culture. In an earlier time, the term deaf was used to refer to individuals with severe hearing impairments. Therefore, deaf culture was comprised of individuals with a deficiency in the hearing organ. However, as time evolved, the term deaf culture carried a broader meaning. The meaning included individuals with a common life experience either directly or indirectly…

gestured. If we placed ourselves in a room filled with hearing people, we all have equal access to one another’s conversations. We may not know what is being discussed in the conversations around us, but we can hear it happening. Now if we put a Deaf person in this room of a hundred voices, he/she will not know what is going on. He/she will have no access to the conversations around them. It would be the same situation was reversed. If we put a hearing person in a room full of Deaf people,…

have a cochlear implant or stay deaf, remaining in the deaf community. The main conflict is determining if they are making the right decision for their child. Sound and Fury revolves around two families who have deaf children. One family, who is hearing, has a deaf infant. While the other child, Heather a four and a half year old, is from a deaf family. The issue here, is Heather wished for a cochlear implant. She had the desire to be able to hear her friends, birds chirping, alarms, horns…

services they receive, how extensive their hearing loss is, and whether it is accompanied by another disease or disability. This in turn, can cause them to isolate themselves and produce devastating effects on self-concept. There are often a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings between the deaf and hearing community.…

discrimination, it came across that deaf people should be protected by the ADA program. The ADA program stands for Americans with Disabilities Act. This act can protect any individual who is trying to apply for a job and gets neglected because of their hearing impairment. What this act does is that as long as you have all the…

of Technology (RIT) within the Deaf studies lab. His presentation focused on Audism, Linguisticism, and resilience. According to Hauser, audism was defined as “being Deaf is bad” by Dr. Tome Humphries in 1977. Audism is being prejudice based on hearing status and a Deaf person being viewed as inferior. Linguisticism was defined by Dr. MJ Bienvenus as “teaching Deaf Children American Sign Language (ASL) is bad.” This is related to audism by being a form of prejudice towards the Deaf community.…

unilateral hearing loss, due to the very limited studies investigating unilateral hearing loss’ effects on auditory processing. It is known that profound deafness in known to greatly reduce neural activity in the auditory nerve. However, in the past unilateral hearing loss was considered to be of little consequence because normal speech and language development will still occur through the normal hearing ear. Some researchers though, have found that children with severe-profound unilateral…

(Holcomb, 2013). When the interpreter identifies which of the categories the client is using, the interpreter can pick out the Hearing Culture humor equivalent. For example, a joke with tension that is built up and released, could be interpreted as if it were a relief humor. If there is a surprise or unexpected element, it would be incongruity. A story about an ignorant Hearing person or a deaf person, then its equivalent could be superiority (Meyer,…