Specific language impairment

These children identify as CODAs and they grow up exposed to both the hearing and the deaf communities. CODAs learn ASL (American Sign Language) as their primary means of communication, and later learn the oral language of their community (Bishop & Hicks, 2005). Because CODAs interact with both the deaf and hearing communities, a vast amount of research has been conducted in order to explore the process of identity development…

Cochlear implants, also known as the “bionic ear”, are devices that help provide aid for those hard-of-hearing. These devices are extremely complex and contain parts that are forced to work as a functioning unit. I will be going into more in depth with cochlear implants as well as defining what a cochlear implant actually is. I will also explain the costs that are involved, who the “best candidate” would be for implantation, and the risks and benefits involved with the implant. According to the…

which as the Miriam-Webster Dictionary ( 2015) defines is a way of conforming to a principle, type, standard or a regular pattern. "Normal" is an idea created by others, existing outside of ourselves, forcing us to confirm or reject belonging to a specific group. It changes, depending on the tastes, views, current trends as well as people who decide what is normal and what is…

In recent years, numerous technological advances have come forth in an attempt to resolve or dampen the effects of different sensory impairments. Since around the intermediate years of the 1900s, one invention in particular has been designed, revised, and debated over with the purpose of aiding individuals who suffer complete and various partial forms of hearing loss. Hearing loss involves cochlear malfunction, and the cochlea is the primary hearing organ in the inner ear. Over the past few…

Why I Jump Autobiography In the book Why I Jump, a boy named Naoki has autism. The book is about his life and him answering questions people have about autism. He answers the questions to the best of his ability on what it’s like for him in his life. It’s about how he feels on a daily basis and how he learned to cope with it, by communicating through the alphabet. He used that knowledge to write this book for people to understand autism in a better way. Naoki was young when he was diagnosed…

Mr. M is a 72 year old Caucasian male. He was born in Boston, MA and currently resides with his wife, Mary, in a small suburb, Randolph, MA, in a two-story colonial home. He is the son of Irish immigrants and is of completely Irish descent. Mr. M completed two years of art studies at Boston College before being drafted into the Vietnam War. After serving in the army, Mr. M had a life-long career in the Boston Gas Company until the age of 67, when he retired with a monthly pension. His wife is a…

Although Oakley did not speak because she did not want to, it is totally different from a Deaf person. Oakley had her way of getting things across and communicating with people that talked. This is just like a Deaf person; they have sign language to communicate. If you are around a Deaf person long enough, you will also be able to figure out what is on their mind. One thing that is similar in the book and a Deaf person is the strength in both. The strength that Oakley had to finally speak…

Later, her mother refuses to let her daughter purchase a dress from her friends’ father’s dress show, using a discount. I also learned that hearing people, like Maggie, who grow up in a deaf family struggle in academics because sign language is their first language. Although, Maggie is hearing, she was forced to work much harder than her peers for that reason. Lastly, I learned that houses in the depression era were not equipped properly to assist someone who was deaf because the technology did…

goes for hearing aids, in the good side of hearing aids is: hear stuff better for far places, easier to talk in conversations, easier to learn, and theirs something new to hearing aids called targeted amplification which allows you to know who the specific person is talking to you if your in a group of people you can know which person is talking to you, on the other hand theirs a bad side for hearing aids: its very costy, very high priced; if you want the best hearing aids they could cost you…

and “queered” identity yet again, claiming that her path to understanding her place in society is by “[surrounding herself] with stories that tell [her] who [she] is” (212). This statement bolsters Mean Little deaf Queer’s position as an identity-specific memoir, reaching out, not only to deaf or queer folk, but to those who may share both identifiers. The author’s in-text reflections match this assumption, through a conjuration of a past Galloway who struggles to confront, not only her…