“Deaf Like Me” by Thomas S. Spradley and James P.Spradley is a marvelous book the emphasises the everyday struggles of raising a deaf child, and the struggles a family must go through to adjust. Although this is, the book also shows the a deaf child can do anything a hearing child can as stated by Lynn Spradley the deaf child of Thomas and Louise Spradley, what this book prevails. At the beginning we learn how Louise Spradley has a case of German Measles which were becoming common in her area, even
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the Formation of a Visual Variety of the Human Race, Benjamin Bahan brings to light the importance of vision in regards to sign production in ASL. Bahan states that deaf people are “people of the eye” and are highly visual as well as tactile. He elaborates on that point with the story of a deaf child that was able to identify another deaf individual just by examining him on the street. The importance of the vision in ASL community is expanded to sign production. The eyes are able to convey distance
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Many deaf people have been influential in the everyday life of an average deaf individual. While I was researching, I found one in particular that stood out to me. She was the first Miss America with a disability, she was deaf she was Heather Whitestone. She came to face many great challenges in her life, but she overcame them all. When Heather was just 18 months old she got influenza and had to be rushed to the hospital. She had an extremely high fever and was near death. The doctors gave her
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ASL Storytelling Night Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend a Deaf Awareness Week event, an ASL storytelling night and potluck. This was the first experience I had to analyze a large group of Deaf people from my community communicating. When I entered a large room, at Russian Jack Elementary School, the sight of several people signing to each other in ASL greeted me. One thing that stood out to me was the number of children that were in the room. There were a lot more young
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working to make the world a better place!” (Cooper-White). I do not believe this quote was at all intended to be offensive but it can be interpreted as such. While discussing the “miracle” the cochlear implant is considered to be, it is implied that Deaf people are an inconvenience and that they are broken and need to be fixed. Deafness is not a disability, a disability is considered to be a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements or activities. The ADA (Americans with disabilities
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Communication is the most impartial way to connect people with their environment community even for socializes. Wondering how deaf-mute can express their feelings and needs with other normal people. Do deaf-mute people have the accessibility that helps them connect with the others every day challenge? How do they communicate with one another? What causes deafness and can it be treated? Does a community provide assistances for those in need and do they understand their statues? By reviewing the research
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The Deaf community and Deaf culture are everywhere, including countries under the poverty line, and it's not handled the same in a third world country as it is in America. In a third world country, Deaf people go underappreciated and are often times treated as they had been in early America, incapable and unworthy of employment. This discrimination caused Deaf people to find their own ways to make money, often times through illegal or life-threatening situations such as begging, stealing, slavery
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surroundings. This disability is called Deaf-Blindness and you have impaired vision and hearing. Deafblindness could happen in many stages in someone’s life during premature birth, later in life, or even from a genetic cause. Premature children can gain Deafblindness from problems associated with premature birth (before the 37 weeks of pregnancy), an infection during pregnancy, genetic conditions, or foetal alcohol syndrome. With the highest leading cause to Deaf-Blindness is Usher’s Syndrome, this
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The topic I’d like to research more on is the discrimination against deaf people. The questions or ideas I had are… -Why aren’t more people aware of deaf people? -Doctors often recommend the use of cochlear implants or hearing aids to hearing parents of a deaf child, even the deaf parents too, over the use of sign language. Why is that? Is it purely for monetary reasons, prejudiced against deaf people, only seeing deafness as a disability, or just ignorant in general? -Why is their language often
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It has helped millions of individuals communicate with their family, friends, professors, and people in their everyday life. Vision is a very powerful aspect of perception that is necessary for deaf people to communicate via ASL. American Sign Language is becoming more developed and incorporated in todays society and will continue to do so in the future. American Sign Language unlike any other language does not use word of mouth; it uses signals
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