Hearing impairment

pushes her insistent belief that “lesbianism … was [simply] a passing thing” (90-133). In light of her consecutive breakdowns mid-text, this is ultimately deemed false. “I was bound to come undone,” Galloway writes, referring to both the strain of her hearing guise, as well as her “scarily pent-up sexuality” (103). She notes the crux of her struggles as being in her sophomore year of university, having to spend “three days in the university clinic, crying like a baby” after bursting out into…

whether one lives in an area with a high deaf population, there will always be those who are deaf or hard of hearing. There are also many children with disabilities that keep them from being able to verbally communicate. These citizens primarily rely on Sign Language to communicate, but hearing people often have a difficult time understanding them. As it is with any other language, hearing people are ignorant because they don’t understand sign language and haven’t had a chance to learn about it.…

The reasons for why Deaf students are underachieving on tests varies greatly, and likely is not fully understood, but there are certain factors that have already been identified by researchers. A student’s mastery of his first language is a precursor to strong reading abilities (Marschark). If a student has weak language skills, then it is expected that he will struggle to learn how to read and write. However, if the student is surrounded with strong language models from birth, then they are…

the hearing people around me were the “culture shock” and not the Deaf Culture. As I became older, it became easier for me to see the vast differences between the two and ultimately grow an appreciation for both worlds. Since I can’t give an interesting ‘a-ha’ story, I will explain what I think is fascinating about Deaf Culture. First and foremost, who would have thought that Deaf people were better drivers than hearing people?! It turns out that they are much more attentive than hearing people…

Further, signitive intentionality “intends the object at one stroke, all at once, as a whole” in the word. Pictorial intentionality on the other hand offers only a “certain perspective” (83). Additionally, pictorial intending is much like “seeing or hearing”, whereas signitive intending is…

research done by Erin Wilkinson, a Linguistics professor with the University of Manitoba. The research presented specifically focused on how lexical information (concepts) are processed in the minds of Deaf adults and children as compared to their hearing counterparts. Information about this event was presented on the syllabus of this course. Additionally, the Talking Hands club sent out a flyer on the event through Owl Connect. I chose to go to this event because I am very interested in…

the brain. Differing from hearing aids, which amplify sound, the cochlear implant, bypasses damaged…

“Laurent Clerc: The Story of His Early Years” is a book based upon Laurent Clerc life as a deaf child and how he comes to find of others who were also deaf and learn school. In the first few chapter of the book Laurent Clerc is living at home with his family in La Balme. His mother takes him to see doctors and check him out but no one could seem to see what was wrong with him. They would perform all sorts of test on the boy, such as putting medicine in his ears. None of the doctor’s methods…

perceptions were altered quite drastically in terms of how some deaf people perceive themselves and the attitudes hearing people have towards them. Many deaf people do not see themselves as having a problem in need of fixing, they just accept it as a trait. Alternately, many hearing people think that deaf people are broken and need some sort of cure. I never realized how outdated the views of hearing people are in terms of the abilities of deaf people. Deaf people have had to fight for their…

American Sign Language was influenced by France. Abbe de l’Epee was a priest in Paris. Once he visited a local minister’s home, he had seen two young girls were signing to each other. After that he realized that he can do something with that to help more deaf people. Therefore, in 1771, he established the first free educational institution of sign language in France. He modified the Old French Sign Language constantly, and then it became to his own form named Old Signed French. Thomas Hopkins…