I attended my first Deaf event on February 9th, 2017 in the Siverson Lounge here at Augustana University. The event title was ASL open house, and I attended from 5:30-7 P.M. Going into an experience like a Deaf event my nerves were running high for fear of the communication barrier that somewhat persists. I had previously learned from ASL-110 that the Deaf community is very welcoming to new signers, but my anxiety level does not seem to quite understand that concept. I feel much more comfortable
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Bernard Bragg was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 27 1928 to Deaf parents. Due to his father’s interest and involvement in the theater as an amateur actor and manager, Bragg became interested with theater at an early age. After enrolling in New York School for the Deaf, Bragg began to receive his first form of formal training from his mentor Robert F. Panara, who greatly encouraged his interest in the arts. After graduating in 1947, Bragg enrolled in Gallaudet College, where he played lead
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don’t really consider the struggles a deaf person may have. Through the various lectures and the two videos we had the pleasure to watch I gained insight on how deaf people may feel in regards to the ignorance hearing people sometimes possess. As I take the time to really reflect on my views of the deaf community before joining this class I realize I did not have a positive or negative view towards the culture. I simply did not know anything about deaf people, and I never really took the
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Deaf people were once degraded, called names but in today's society are seen to have a unique culture well known to us as the deaf culture. Before the initiation of Sign language, many people made up theories as to saying that the only way a person can receive an education or learn something was through words that are spoken. Which is proven thankfully not true if we compare it to the modern day society where so much development and acceptance has taken place among the hearing and the deaf communities
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loss, and one out of every four hundered is profoundly deaf. Yet many hard-of-hearing which is a term used to describe mild to moderate hearing loss and deaf people in this country do not consider themselves handicapped. They do not believe their hearing loss makes them less- just different, and they look upon the deaf community as a sperate culture; as rich and diverse as that of the hearing world." (Turkingston, Sussman 4). The deaf community has had a continuing struggle with trying to maintain
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Deaf Event For my American Sign Language class I needed to attend some type of Deaf event. The event I chose was the showing of Love is Never Silent on October 22nd from 6-8pm in Wiley Hall at the University of Minnesota. Love is Never Silent is a very touching and powerful television movie from 1985. This movie can help the hearing world get a look at what it is like to have family members that are Deaf. This movie was also probably an inspiration for Deaf people by how relatable it could be
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American Sign Language, or ASL has long been associated with the deaf community, and for good reason, as it was created for those who are deaf, hard of hearing and hearing impaired. After officially being recognized as a language in 1817, it has been the standard used in most of the United States of America, as well as most of Canada. In recent years, however it has been used to teach infants how to speak, and as a tool for nonverbal autistic people to communicate. There are major differences
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Children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HoH) experience unique challenges in public school settings. They often face academic and social obstacles that their normal hearing peers do not encounter. D/HoH adolescents especially tend to have less positive notions about themselves. Often they feel isolation and alienation from peers in inclusive classrooms because of the language barrier. Due to this, social interactions that could foster feelings of belonging and friendship with hearing peers are
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After reading the article “Do Deaf People Have a Disability?” by Harlan Lane with my peers, I have educated myself further by understanding fully. Before I took American Sign Language, I didn’t even think about the Deaf community, much less if they were being oppressed or not. I never thought that they were oppressed for being Deaf, something which isn’t wrong, just like racism and sexism. The word disability is socially constructed, and that we should stop using it because putting labels on people
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that my parents are deaf their emotions every single time are shocked to interested to sympathetic. The emotion roller coaster always ends up with people asking how bad my life has been not having parents that can hear, all the hardships that come with it. Realistically I have loved having deaf parents, while there have been some obstacles in my life, it has been enriched by having deaf parents. I have always loved the events put on by the deaf community, things like the deaf expo or festival. It
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