Hearing

The author describes how younger the deaf or hard or hearing student is, the greater responsibility the interpreter has as part of the educational team, and how those responsibilities change the older the student gets, or grade level. The author talks about how opposite the expectation of qualified interpreters…

This is apparent when Cyrus (2010) remarks on the success of her hearing-deaf marriage and then follows this with the proclamation that because she had to assert her right into the hearing-world, she would not “throw it all away by marrying a deaf guy” (p. 122). The sentiment expressed in this quotation compellingly represents the power of narrative accounts to provide phenomenological…

people develop a hearing impairment. Nobody really thinks about what would happen if they lost their hearing, but there are many different kinds of hearing impairments. However, there are some treatments and adaptations that can help the hearing impaired cope in today’s world. There are many types of audibly impairments, but all of them are different. The most common type is sensorineural hearing loss. It’s caused by damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve. More than 90% of hearing aid…

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.…

(LDS), Theory of Mind (ToM) and if assistive devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants actually help avoid these issue. These topics were of great interest to me since I am going into the medical field and do not have any prior knowledge. Gulati stated that the most important issues in the deaf world and community is LDS. LDS is formed when a primary language is not developed; which also termed as L1. He believes that hearing is about language and his definition of deaf is a person who…

The 2009-10 Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Youth of the Gallaudet Research Institute, Gallaudet University revealed the demographics of deaf or hard hearing (DHH) children and youth with no other conditions and those with other conditions such as low vision, blindness, developmental delay, learning disability, emotional disturbance, orthopedic impairment, intellectual disability, and autism. Out of a total of 32334 DHH children and youth surveyed nationwide with known…

There’s a lot of literature about adoption of Deaf babies into Hearing families. One of the most vital things that most of the literature agrees upon is having the parents of the Deaf child be fluent in ASL. Barbara White writes in “This Child is Mine: Deaf Parents and their Adopted Deaf Children” about Children of Deaf Adults (CODAs) and their experience being raised with Deaf parents; while Deaf children in Hearing families who don’t know ASL are often ignored or cast to the side,…

different for their deaf child. Hearing parents force cochlear implants on their children because they are ignorant against the deaf community; and Deaf parents do not want deaf children to have cochlear implant because they do not want to forget about deaf community. First, hearing parents with a Deaf children who have cochlear implants. Parents force their children to have speech therapy, socialization, and listen carefully. The parents want their children to be into hearing world. Parents…

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…

Individuals who have a deaf consciousness believe that they are unjustly treated within society based on their hearing impairments that lead them to “reject the legitimacy of their subordinate position,” (Mansbridge & Morris, 2001, p. 69). People who are deaf often feel that they are treated unfairly in situations of “domination created by hearing people” (Mansbridge & Morris, 2001, p. 69). It is of interest that people within the deaf community, against their feelings of being…