Models of deafness

A deaf person can do anything a hearing person can do, except hear. A deaf person can read this paper. A deaf person can understand the arguments being made. There is no difference between how able a deaf person and a hearing person can read this paper. The idea that a deaf person can do everything a hearing person can do was not always a universal thought. In fact, before the eighties, the deaf community was rarely taken seriously. When the American’s with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990,…

Prior to reading chapter three in the text A Journey into the Death World, I always thought that Deaf babies had a more difficult time growing up in terms of their developmental milestones. Reading this chapter I found out that there are more similarities than differences among them and their hearing counterparts. They went through the normal babbling sounds and other processes that the hearing ones went through. As hearing people we all tend to think that there is something wrong with a child…

Watching the See What I 'm Saying film was a very cool experience for me. I really enjoy Deaf Culture, but I do not really know all that much about it. This film showed the lives of four different entertainers and how they live their daily life. I was able to lean many new things from this film and I found certain parts to be very interesting. Through watching this film, I have learned many things that I did not know before about hearing loss and Deaf Culture and have also learned what life is…

In society, there are many different individuals in the world that suffer from some sort of disability. Not everyone gets the chance to live a normal life because they might have a problem or sickness that they have to overcome. In the article “Victims from Birth” founding Editor Wendy McElroy, provides the story of Gauvin Hughes McCullough, whose deaf parents deny him a hearing aid, hoping he would grow up and be just like them. The lesbian couple were delighted to have Gauvin, their child to…

Kwan Yi Lam SS1A 10/22/2015 Reflation paper 2: Subcultures In the class lecture video, Durkhinam et al. defines a society to be a multiplex network of human relationships and who share a common culture. It indicates that the society shapes an individual and thus within the society, an individual develops a certain identity. In this situation, the paper seeks to examine the deaf culture. In an earlier time, the term deaf was used to refer to individuals with severe hearing impairments. Therefore…

Communication is defined as the ability to exchange a message to another person, whether it be spoken, signed, or gestured. If we placed ourselves in a room filled with hearing people, we all have equal access to one another’s conversations. We may not know what is being discussed in the conversations around us, but we can hear it happening. Now if we put a Deaf person in this room of a hundred voices, he/she will not know what is going on. He/she will have no access to the conversations around…

The documentary Sound and Fury, focuses on the Artinian family and their decision on if their children should have a cochlear implant or stay deaf, remaining in the deaf community. The main conflict is determining if they are making the right decision for their child. Sound and Fury revolves around two families who have deaf children. One family, who is hearing, has a deaf infant. While the other child, Heather a four and a half year old, is from a deaf family. The issue here, is Heather…

This resembles members of the deaf community in that they rely heavily on sign language to communicate. “90% of the deaf community uses sign language as a means of communication” (Phan, 2013). Furthermore, they are isolated and separated by their deafness if those around them do not learn to sign or if they don’t learn to speak. Those who are deaf are often separated developmentally and academically, depending on when and what kind of early intervention services they receive, how extensive their…

Deaf discrimination can become a major problem for those who are known as deaf. People see it as a disability where some may think that these people need help at all times. Many people don’t believe that by being deaf, it does not mean you can’t do things for yourself. When applying for a job, it can be even more difficult because most jobs require verbal languages. Although, this does not mean that deaf people wouldn’t be qualified for certain job opportunities. While doing research on deaf…

Peter Hauser did a presentation with TEDx at Gallaudet University titled “Liguisticism and Audism on the Developing Deaf Person.” Hauser obtained his Master’s degree from Gallaudet and went on to obtain a PhD in Psychology. At the time of this presentation, he was working at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) within the Deaf studies lab. His presentation focused on Audism, Linguisticism, and resilience. According to Hauser, audism was defined as “being Deaf is bad” by Dr. Tome Humphries…