Hearing

The hearing aid is a device that you can put into your ear and it will help you to hear better, but it is mainly for people that have only lost a little bit of hearing and not so much for completely deaf people. Although Beethoven was deaf, he wrote some of his most famous music when he was completely deaf. He also said most of his famous…

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…

This movie certainly gave me a variety of perspectives and reactions. I highly commend the grandmother’s perspective of wanting to broaden her grand-daughters world of knowledge and speech. She herself being a parent of deaf children and as a hearing individual, both her and her husband, had to embrace learning this world, of her 2 sons, 1 being born deaf, there certainly are opposing side. Heather, who at 5 yrs of age, is expressing she wants to learn to speak properly and have a cochlear…

Deaf Culture In the United States there are approximately 36 million individuals with who have hearing loss to some degree and of these, and an estimated 500,000 are culturally Deaf and part of the Deaf community (Fileccia, 2011). Deaf, with a capital D refer to individuals who consider themselves part of the Deaf community culturally, whereas deaf refers to a condition in which one lacks the ability to hear. Deaf culture is similar to any other culture in that it can be characterized by certain…

that teaching babies how to communicate through signing is just a fad. In my 19 years experience of teaching hearing children how to sign as a form of regular communication, I can say that signing with your child is not just a fad, rather a smart parenting technique that can have lasting positive effects on your child to adulthood. My work has created a fascination for me to discover why hearing babies and toddlers should learn America Sign Language as a form of communication. A follower asked…

1) What counseling theories work well with D/deafs? Why? Reality Therapy, created by William Glasser during 1950’s focuses on the “present” and choices involving some form of action that relates to basic needs. The reality therapy works well with Deaf individuals because it’s a way to help them deal with their Deafness. The truth is some Deaf individuals tend to blame others for their problems. With Reality therapy, it will help them to acknowledge their responsibilities, feelings, actions, and…

Autism dogs are very good dogs that alert when something is not right. Another kind of dog is a hearing dog. First, hearing dogs can alert people to everyday sounds. They can listen and indicate when it is safe to cross the street. Secondly, they give the owner a chance of freedom. They can walk around without a person following them. Thirdly they can retrieve items from a place. Finally, hearing dogs can help children socialize and learn communication skills and help with lifelong skills. Dogs…

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…

Louise and Tom Spradley were happily married with one three-year old child named Bruce. In 1964, Louise got pregnant to their second child. While she was pregnant with the baby, her son Bruce got sick with the German measles. In her desperation, she took him to the Doctor. The Doctor then explained her that if she were to be pregnant, the baby would have congenital defects due to the rubella. Within the next few days she started to get a rash in her arm. Therefore, the baby had more chances of…

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…