Silence, that's all that baby Daisy Gore has heard since the day she was born, brought into the world by her two hearing parents. Daisy was the first in her family to be born with red hair and profoundly deaf. “My parents did not know what to do with the news,” says Daisy. Her parents took her home and immediately contacted a family friend who was an audiologist, their friend also came to the conclusion that baby Daisy was deaf. Later, Daisy’s parents finally accepted that she would never hear. Days later, they discovered deaf culture and sign language.
Deaf culture is the values, social behaviors, and beliefs of those who are deaf. According to Gore, “Deaf culture is not all that different from hearing culture, we just have different ways …show more content…
Sign language is used in the deaf culture and is used by deaf or hard of hearing people and sometimes even hearing people. At the age of five, Daisy’s parents signed her up to learn sign language. Learning to sign was hard for Daisy as it is for most children born deaf. “Both of my parents can hear and at that time did not know sign language so there was no signing going on at home, I was seven years old when I finally became fluent in sign language,” said Daisy. Anyone at any age can learn how to do sign language. Signing is a language that takes a lot of time and effort to build and remember; however, signing is the best route of communication for a deaf …show more content…
Daisy told me about a time when she was sixteen years old, her parents took her to Carowinds, and she wanted a funnel cake. “I went up to the guy to order my funnel cake, but the guy did not understand me, so I left without getting my funnel cake,” said Daisy. By that time Daisy’s parents still did not know sign language. She never told them about not getting her funnel cake, because she knew they would order it for her. “Deaf Children born with hearing parents tend to feel left out as they have no way of communicating with anyone,” says Daisy. Like that day with the guy and the funnel cake, Daisy felt as though she couldn’t tell her parents because of the communication differences. “Communication is important and sign language is my way of communicating,” said Daisy. She told me that she wanted to teach her parents to sign. Daisy taught her parents how to sign after coming home from Carowinds. After, teaching her parents how to sign, that's when she knew she wanted to go to school and do with her