Hearing

The book “Deaf Like Me” by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley intrigued because it was about a hearing family that had a deaf daughter. I was also interested that the book was written in the perspective of the father. The statistic that vast majority of deaf children are born to hearing parents has always made me fascinated with what each hearing parent has done for their deaf child. I knew that this story would most likely have a happy ending considering the title “Deaf Like Me” I made…

suffer from a severe to profound hearing loss who do not benefit from the use of hearing aids. Individuals who are candidates for the use of cochlear implants commonly suffer from a severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss, which is a hearing loss that is attributed to damage to the cochlea. The cochlea is the anatomical structure that stimulates the auditory nerve, thus allowing the individual to perceive sound. However, a cochlear implant is not a cure for a hearing loss. According to the…

the front lines of public service story 9.4 “Hearing Aids Conk Out”, tell a story of a young women who went to a vocational rehabilitation center to ask for help in paying for over $1,000 for replacement hearing aids the young women needed in order to keep her job. Maynard-Moody and Michael Musheno write, “Under ‘order of selection’… she was not eligible. To get help you have to lose the job, but losing the job defeats the purpose because the hearing aids (purpose is) to keep the job. (Moody &…

The article I chose covers the topic of language and literacy development for deaf and hard of hearing children. The article is entitled “Language and Literacy Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: Successes and Challenges”(p.15). In the article the authors discuss how children develop language and literacy when they are deaf/hard of hearing. They also discuss how children who have hearing loss struggle with language development. The exception to this rule is deaf children with deaf…

he most common reason for a conductive loss of hearing in children is the condition otitis media with effusion, or also known as glue ear. Hearing loss typically occurs in part of the outer ear if it is congested. This then causes the sound waves incapable of reaching the middle or inner section of the ear. A conductive hearing loss can transpire in the outer or middle ear region containing poor conduction of sound along the channels leading primarily to the inner part of the ear. Due to this,…

“Genetic Dilemmas and the Child’s Right to an Open Future,” by Dena Davis Thesis 1: Whether deafness is viewed as a disability, which narrows a child’s future options, or a culture, which narrows the child’s option to not be associated with that culture or participate fully in mainstream culture, purposefully having a child who is deaf is a moral harm to the child. Allowing an adult to make a decision for a child before they are born to place her in the Deaf culture or otherwise limit her…

pathologist, I think it is easy to overlook the fact that I will most likely encounter clients who are deaf or hard of hearing (HOH). After all, I am going to school to specialize in helping those with speech and language disabilities- nowhere in my title does the word ‘hearing’ occur. Despite this, I will surely be part of an interdisciplinary team tasked with supporting those who experience hearing loss if I chose to work in the schools. Thus, the presentations from Presbyterian Ear Institute…

Early oral language development is the main precursor of reading development. Reading levels of deaf or hard of hearing students are delayed due to the limited amount of reading they are exposed to as children, difficulties with language comprehension and cognition are among the subjects that need to be addressed by educators (Marschark et al., 2012). Children who are deaf or hard of hearing commonly graduate high school with a fourth-grade literacy skill level. A student in the fourth grade is…

Explaining a particular experience to one who is not capable of hearing may be challenging if not impossible. I, as a person with hearing capabilities, have the ability to hear fire alarms, lyrics in music, my parents calling my name, and considerably more. I would explain hearing to an individual that is deaf would be through signing, as I have taken American Sign Language and learned that people who are deaf hear through their eyes. The way I would describe sound would be with my facial…

vibrant community and its associated culture.”() Both the video and the textbook describe the main issue that deaf people are to face. Nonetheless, they keep up the optimistic appearance and do their best to exude self-confidence. In spite of their hearing disorder, these people are proud to be deaf. Moreover, they tend to resort to the American Sign Language in order to communicate freely. In my opinion, the videos under discussion succeeded at pointing out the chief aspects of deaf people’s…