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should understand the importance of early identification and intervention (JCIH, 1994). Hearing loss affects children’s speech, language, academic, and social/emotional development if not identified early. The first three years in children’s lives are crucial for speech and language development. Thus, the ultimate goal of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) is to detect hearing loss early in order to treat hearing loss sooner, preventing a delay in children’s overall development (NIH,…

This movie certainly gave me a variety of perspectives and reactions. I highly commend the grandmother’s perspective of wanting to broaden her grand-daughters world of knowledge and speech. She herself being a parent of deaf children and as a hearing individual, both her and her husband, had to embrace learning this world, of her 2 sons, 1 being born deaf, there certainly are opposing side. Heather, who at 5 yrs of age, is expressing she wants to learn to speak properly and have a cochlear…

Much of this presentation reminds me of discussion we had in class on Monday about the differences between advocates and allies, though this seems to be focused more on a professional level. I found the categories of heritage people, tourists, travelers, and professionals to be interesting and helpful. Hafer’s presentation focused on the role of the traveler in the Deaf community, and how the role of the professional ought to be be more like that of a traveler. In this discussion, travelers are…

Maryland Bulletin (1991-1996) In “Maryland Bulletin” April 1991, over one hundred years the old Main Building provided accommodations as classroom facilities for the deaf students in Maryland and the building was torn down in 1967. The state of Maryland wants to provide the need of special educational services to deaf children very early in the history. Since Maryland feel the need to providing facilities to educate its deaf children, Henry Baker in 1867 reported a bill to incorporate the…

I haven’t realized that the mechanism for us to hear the music is quite different from the languages before. This video reminds me of one of my classmate in middle school, who is born deaf and had the cochlear implant. He could communicate with us but his pronunciation is slightly different from us. It happened almost ten years ago and I am not sure whether the cochlear implant devices have been greatly improved nowadays. According to the video, the modern multi-channel cochlear implant device…

Discovery Introduction Discovery is the pretrial process in a lawsuit whereby each party is given the opportunity to employ civil procedure in order to obtain evidence that it deems pertinent to its arguments in the case. Litigation is meant to be a fair process in which every party that is before the court is given the best possible chance to defend their arguments by the use of evidence. In civil law, discovery is employed to help even the ground during trial and to ensure that as much as…

Let me start of by saying that before the movie I did not think that deaf people were as active as they showed in the movie. I am not trying to say I thought deaf individuals stayed home 24/7 and did nothing, what I mean is I did not think that deaf people drove, wrote and acted in plays/musicals and never would have thought that there would be a completely deaf band. It was very interesting to learn that I was 100% incorrect with thinking the way I did. I believe a lot of that comes from…

while her nearby deaf friend doesn’t help because he can’t hear her cries for help. In Bones, a teenage deaf girl is treated as a homicide suspect because she doesn’t immediately speak to the police (Foss 437-438). As a result of this representation, hearing people assume that deaf people would jump to any chance for a cure. Cochlear implants present a “cure” for the Deaf, but it is not as beneficial one would assume. Some believe that any deaf person who can afford the procedure should choose…

The book “Deaf Hearing Boy” is way more than just a story about a hearing boy. It has a really big and important meaning to it about how deaf people used to be treated, but also how they still are treated. This book is a story about R. H. Miller’s life story and the complications he had to face being one of the four brothers all whom were hearing and his parents being deaf. His parents had a hard life to try and make it through. They loved the urban life. They felt as if the deaf community was…

The students of Gallaudet University led a protest in March of 1988 that captured the attention of both hearing and Deaf people worldwide. Gallaudet University, established in 1864 as a university from its previous position as a grammar school in Washington DC, was the first college for the deaf and still is the only Deaf liberal arts university in the world. It is considered a place of cultural significance in the Deaf Community, equivalent to Mecca or Jerusalem, and is the alma mater for 95%…