Becoming Deaf

Deaf culture is like any bother minority culture with a set of their own beliefs, morals, values, traditions, and other things.Deaf people is part of one of the largest societies, but yet it is fascinating to come across someone who is death because we are used to sound and chaos everywhere.

Being hard of hearing, or deaf, is a common disability. Rarely is a person completely deaf, and a hearing loss could fall anywhere from being completely deaf to hearing. The amount of functional hearing varies greatly from person to person. While it may seem that being completely deaf is the only hearing disability, any sort of hearing loss is seen as impairment. A simple daily task such as communication becomes difficult when one’s hearing is lost. For the most part, English is an oral and aural language supposed to be spoken and heard. Therefore, it is quite challenging to learn and understand English when you

Deaf blindness can be due to several causes, such as Ushers Syndrome, Rubella (German measles) and problems caused by premature births.

An adult that goes deaf feels they can lose alot; friends, a job, a marriage.

I have been deaf for a few days now and the lesson I have learned is that I took hearing my kids say my name for granted. I can no longer hear them arguing, crying, singing, and saying my name over and over again. I have yet to learn to read their lips and they cannot all write out what they have to say to me. Not being able to hear is something I will have to get use to because I will not be able to hear a fire alarm going off, I will not be able to hear my favorite songs anymore or hear when my kids graduate from school.

The history of the deaf goes far back to the biblical times. Being born deaf or going deaf made it very difficult back in the days. As a deaf person you were never treated the way you should be treated because people either respected you are not. Deaf people lacked many social opportunities that everyone had because they were seen as disabled. During biblical times it is even recorded that if a child was born deaf the father of the child could decide if they should live or not. As time developed the deaf were even forbidden to attend church, control their properties, or even

They have to communicate using their hands and faicial expressions, and have to find ways to talk with non-signing, hearing people. They face daily challenges that we wouldn’t even think about. They have to drive cars without being able to hear, they have to pay attention to their surroundings when driving and pay attention. But, deaf people are actually better drivers than hearing people becuase they are so used to paying so close attention to everything (Deaf Culture Facts That Might Surprise You). In order to understand non-signing hearing people, the deaf has to learn to read lips. This can be very difficult because some people talk very fast and deaf people cannot follow. Also, only about 30% of English Spoken words are distinguishible by lip reading

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition of blind is “unable to see; sightless” (Definition of Blind in English, 2015). However, I do not like to be put in such a box. I define blindness as merely a heightening of other senses. What do you think of when you hear the word sight? More than likely you think of shapes, colors, and objects. My idea of sight consists of many senses; smell, touch, sounds, those are the things that I “see” with. How about the word blind; what do you think of then? The most common relation to the word blind is disabled; however, we are a very abled people. Even though I carry a cane among my person I get through my daily life just as any other able-bodied human being (Question 1).

It doesn’t matter if someone is blind or deaf for one to see what is all around they have to use other senses no one knows exist until the time is needed for one rely on it. One learns to rely on other senses to survive once one sense fails. However, teaching someone who can see and hear how to use their other senses can be complicated if they are not receptive to the teacher, or in other cases teach a person to see beyond their normal sight to open up their senses.

Deaf Culture is a true culture just like any other. It has a language, beliefs, rules for behavior, traditions, and everything else every other culture has. However, without sign language, there would be no Deaf Culture. Sign language is the language that ties the culture together. And having a Deaf culture has significantly impacted the lives of deaf people throughout history. With Deaf culture, deaf people have a group they can identify with, a place where they are comfortable and just like everyone else, one where they can have role models, real friends, and join sports

Deaf people are not limited by hearing loss and are able to achieve what the hearing people can achieve. Some deaf people are proud of being deaf not from the medical perspective, but from the linguistic perspective. Since ASL is capable of supporting the highest levels of abstract mind-to-mind communication, it is considered to be a rich language. From the linguistic point, the deaf people are viewed as bilingual in ASL and English. Unlike others, their first language is ASL instead of English. There are so many deaf people out there that are teachers, writers, lawyers, doctors, etc. Sharon and Candy, the deaf couples who want their children to be deaf in the article A World of Their Own by Liza Mundy, all performed well academically and are graduates from universities. They see how successful deaf people can be as well as the capabilities of their deaf child. Parents always want to give the best to their children. If Candy and Sharon searched around and worked so hard to get a deaf baby, I am sure that this is what they think the best for that

To begin with, there are different meanings for deaf vs. Deaf. Deaf include a capital D, which means culture and community. For example, a deaf child has been sent to deaf institute to learn deaf community, language, and education, if he/she wasn’t sent to deaf school then he/she would considered deaf because he/she wasn’t aware of deaf community and doesn’t use sign language. She/he knows how to speak. The population of people who are deaf considered themselves Deaf but on the other hand, people who considered themselves hard of hearing are deaf because they have no contact with Deaf culture and

England, fits this description of the “completely blind”, in that he cannot see due to his blindness

You could look at adversity in two ways, one, when it hits you not only do you not get back up but it just weighs you down to the point where you never return to your normal state again. Two, like being on a trampoline or jumping off of a bridge with a bungee cord, the force of that adversity will weigh you down temporarily only to push you back up. You could say that Seattle Seahawk fullback Derrick Coleman has been waiting on his bounce back for a long time. You see, at 3 years old, Derrick was diagnosed as being deaf. Now, being deaf at a young age is nothing new. But, when you have big dreams, like wanting to play in the NFL, being deaf is a huge hurdle to overturn. So like the rest of us, Derrick had to start somewhere and he did playing

It is hard for me to imagine being Deaf. It is hard to imagine going through life in utter silence, or with small traces of ambient noise. I think I would miss the subtle things the most. Namely the pitter patter of rain on the windows and the “kerchunk” of a closing door. Those are the noises I take for granted, but, of course, there are more important things to think about then the sounds I would no longer hear. I could not imagine living in an environment where most of the people around me do not speak the same language. I know I would get used to the pointing and gesturing involved in communicating with hearing people, but it still seems so disheartening to almost be forced into not having a sufficient means of communicating with the general