Visual impairment

The video I have selected from the Gallaudet video catalog was by Karen Payne, “Why I Came to Gallaudet” and her new journey inside Deaf Culture. Karen Payne is an older woman who was diagnosed with Meniere’s disease four years ago, and that is a disease that destroys ones hearing permanently. Knowing that she will soon enough lose her ability to hear she thought it would be in her best interest if she moved to a Deaf community. Karen Payne and her husband along side of her moved near Gallaudet,…

The deaf have come a long way with being able to communicate with others without hearing. They have their own language that allows them to communicate with other deaf as well as hearing people who choose to learn their language. There is a debate that has been in the mix for a while and that is if deaf-hearing relationships can work. A deaf-hearing relationship can refer to many different combinations of deaf and hearing. For example a deaf person with someone is fluent signing or moderate or…

Most people want to have the life of getting married and having children while settling down into a nice house. If you do have children, most parents want theirs to be very successful. I bet you didn’t know that 2-3 people out of every 1,000 people in the US are born with a detectable hearing loss in one or both ears. This may not seem like a lot but that number adds up. In fact, 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. Deaf children born into a hearing family tend to be taught speech…

The first child I choose was Jonah, who has the severe hearing impairment. The modifications that I would have to make in my environment would maybe to have words hanging around the room so I can point at them with him so he can understand me. The adaptations that I would have to make would be to learn sign language so that he can better understand me since he cannot hear. I would also to speak while I am doing the sign language so that the other students can understand me at the same time. In…

Going to a deaf event has helped me in my understanding of Deaf culture and language. It has also helped me to realize the importance of what we learn in class. Observing and interacting with people who are deaf was for me an amazing experience, which I believe greatly benefited my learning of American Sign Language (ASL). This experience was a great addition to my learning and helped me to better understand what I was being taught. As many believe it the best way to learn is to do. I learned a…

Discussion The main conclusion to gain from this review is how academic success in deaf children birth through 10, school age 10 through 18, and overall age-span birth through 18 years of age have more academic success with a cochlear implants compared to children without a cochlear implant. The studies correlate with children who receive a cochlear implant early in life and this contributes to greater success academically for a deaf child. According to Bat-Chava et al. (2014), Geers & Nicholas…

When you sit back and think about life, there are many similarities that you have with others. This is something that you may not know until you talk with someone or read a book. I had the chance to read Silence by Natasha Preston. I only read the first book which is part of a series. When I first started, there were many things that made me think twice about reading it. After getting into the book, I realized that something interesting is going on or had happened so I wanted to investigate. The…

In the movie, “Love is Never Silent”, Margaret Ryder (Maggie), a hearing daughter to two deaf parents, grew up during the Great Depression, where the lives between the hearing and the deaf were very segregated. Her parents did not interact with hearing people and relied on Maggie to interpret all situations necessary, including very difficult situations involving money, health and death. Maggie was very unselfish growing up, making her parents her number one priority, which forced her to set…

Turning the Tables Throughout the course of history, our world has been majority hearing, which in turn makes the Deaf community a minority. However, after learning about Deaf culture you can see that Deaf people are able to “turn the tables” by making themselves the majority, and the hearing community the minority. The first demonstration of how the Deaf community can turn the tables is by using humor. One joke called “The Bar Phone” tells of a a group of Deaf people signing in a bar while a…

Article 1: The Contribution of Verbal Working Memory to Deaf Children’s Oral and Written Production Barbara Arfé, Cristina Rossi, and Silvia Sicoli In the past, many studies have been made for the oral and written capabilities of deaf children. But this journal focuses on the same factors but with their working memory. The children who participated in this study were severely or profoundly deaf and aged from eight to thirteen years old. In specific, they focused on the verbal working memory…