Hearing

Today, while in my hometown of Fremont, I went to order some lunch at Subway. As I was waiting in line, I noticed an elderly couple in front of me was signing. The elderly couple was deaf, and they wrote on notepad paper to order their food. In deaf history, people experienced trauma in their lives due to health care providers trying to “fix” their “illness”. The city of Fremont has a large deaf community, and I wondered how deaf people are being treated today in the health care system and if…

The fact that there was a good showing of organizations working with accessibility issues and providing services for people, like hearing parents with Deaf children, made the deaf culture topics we have covered in class seem particularly relevant. At times, it can be easy for me to think about cultural issues broadly and forget that they manafest uniquely in my own community. The event…

My decision to be a Speech-Language Hearing sciences major came as a result from my own experiences living with a hearing loss. As I began high school, I unexpectedly began losing my hearing due to an inner ear disease. I struggled in my schooling for some time before I started the aural rehabilitation that has brought me to where I am today. Through this treatment, I interacted with a variety of audiologists who helped find assistive technologies and communication strategies that were best…

Children of a Lesser God (Sugarman, B. & Palmer, P., 1986) is a motion picture portraying the hurtful disconnect between the hearing and deaf communities. The character Sarah Norman, who is deaf, falls in love with a hearing man whom teaches deaf individuals to speak. The movie is an original with screenplay written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff, whom also later wrote the stage play (Children of a Lesser God, 2016). As the film progresses, it very clear that Sarah Norman wants to live as…

preliminary hearing provides a check against unwarranted prosecutions. Neubauer & Fradella (2014) teach, “During a preliminary hearing, the prosecutor must prove to a judge that a crime was committed and that there is probable cause to believe the defendant committed the crime. Given the low burden of proof, most of the time a judge finds that probable cause is present and orders the defendant held for further proceedings. There are very few cases dismissed at the preliminary hearing for lack of…

As for children that suffered the hearing loss at birth will have a harder time with comprehension and speech because of the temporal lobes auditory areas taking over the other functions of other senses. With them being no more than different from a hearing person because they do still bleed the same color blood as us. We can get around to what has actually happened to the development of the ear and what caused the auditory cortex to be shot. The diseases stated above such as Cytomegalovirus…

Hearing Laura Greaney had suffered from meningitis at a young age. She was hard of hearing for most of her life. As she was getting older, her hearing was getting worse. She became frustrated, mad, and depressed. Her hearing loss had made her life less fulfilling to her. She then got a cochlear implant which improved her hearing and speech comprehension. This made her more confident and happy with her life. In this unit, we learned about how nerve cells need to be stimulated in order to form…

The video I watched is called “Deaf Mosaic #402” which is a television program and the number represents the episode for the show. Deaf Mosaic is produced and distributed by the members of Gallaudet University, however it stopped running in, I think, around 1995. The TV show used to give the viewers an insight into Deaf culture and history. Anyways, the episode #402 is very important because of how it changed the deaf community in such a big way; it was the protest called “Deaf President Now.”…

Mindset is a very interesting concept, what if someone had the ability to change that for one another? If I had the ability to give someone a chance at a new life changing factor, I would definitely start by introducing deaf people into the hearing world. I could only imagine how much of a change that would be by giving deaf people a chance to hear for the first time. There are many ways to change a stuck mindset if someone just tried something new once in a while. People do not have a choice…

A). Deaf Art communicates more than the sensory experience of silence. Many artists include ideas such as the beauty of sign language, oral training, frustrations in communicating, painful oppression, cultural pride, breakdown of family life when hearing parents cannot communicate, joys of Deaf bonding and heritage, residential school life, technology used within the Deaf community (TTY, closed captioning, etc.) and turning points in the artist's acculturation to Deaf culture, such as the…