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Jane Fernandes has an interesting and dynamic history in the Deaf community. In Worcester, Massachusetts, she was born Deaf to a Deaf mother and hearing father. She did not immediately start to learn American Sign Language – her mother taught her how to speak, and she became a very proficient lip-reader. It wasn’t until she entered graduate school at the University of Iowa that she began to learn how to sign. Fernandes has overcome a lot of adversity in her professional life. Surprisingly enough…

Assistive hearing devices and the deaf community is a germane theme for a culminating project because this conflict has more than one side, the theme connects to science, religion, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S.’s Bill of Rights, and this theme/conflict is interesting. There are many sides to the assistive hearing aid and deaf community conflict and cochlear implants, hearing loss and the deaf community relates very well to science, religion, the Universal Declaration of…

rather than hearing children (2012). However, I think it is reasonable for deaf parents to rely on technology to have a child born deaf so that the child can be part of the deaf community and relate to the deaf culture. I find that all the debates that are related to whether to consider deafness a culture or a disability do not account for cultural universals and the beliefs that are shared by all societies. I really do not agree with Mr. Delatycki when he said:…

I would like to teach at a school for the deaf, possibly Michigan School for the Deaf. I'd like to be teaching a group of deaf and hard of hearing students. The deaf-blind students would be a possibility as well, it would be a fun and enlightening challenge for myself. The reason I've developed this commitment to teaching those specific groups is because I am deaf myself. I grew up dealing with education that wasn't designed properly for a deaf student like myself. I want to make sure that this…

Sensorineural hearing loss can result from acoustic trauma (or exposure to excessively loud noise), which may respond to medical therapy with corticosteroids to reduce cochlea hair cell swelling and inflammation to improve healing of these injured inner ear structures. Sensorineural hearing loss can occur from head trauma or abrupt changes in air pressure such as in airplane descent, which can cause inner ear fluid compartment rupture or leakage, which can be toxic to the inner ear. There has…

are not loved as they are. They say the child will have learning and social issues. Questions arise when considering a cochlear implant, such as how will someone with a cochlear implant do in a social environment? How will they fit in with other hearing children? Will they go…

Polish Jewish. She had average parents, her dad owned a used car lot and her mom sold jewelry. So she didn't come from a famous or rich family/ Marlee was not born deaf, she was hearing all the way up until she was 18 months and she caught the roseola virus. She was officially announced legally deaf she had lost all hearing in her right ear and 80 percent in the left. Her deafness definitely didn’t not stop her. Marlee did get a pretty good education. Her parents didn't think she needed a…

year Lawrence Siegel, Director of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD), collaborated with the National Deaf Education Project to publish Needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: A Statement of Principle Regarding Fundamental Systemic Educational Changes. The focus of the publication asserted that “all deaf and hard of hearing children are entitled to an educational system that formally recognizes that communication is at the heart of human and academic growth” (Siegel, 2000, p. 2). This…

The deaf culture has come to evolve and change over the years, at first it was oppressed and shunned from society, but now it thrives. The deaf community conquered many obstacles to get to where it is today. This agonizing story is told by a HDTV documentary called “Through Deaf Eyes”. I watched this film in my Introductory to Sign Language course, I learned so much from the video. I was surprised that I hardly knew any of the material covered by the film. I was also surprised by many of the…

mentally inferior or retarded, less intelligent compared to their hearing peers, and unable to mentally process abstract concepts. These past perspectives on deaf persons to be mentally inferior, unintelligent, and concrete-based thinkers and learners were supported by less comprehensive studies in the past. However, in the present, deaf persons are now considered to have abstract thinking ability, intelligence comparable to their hearing peers, and more cognitive development when intervened…