Bioecological Model Of Deafness Analysis

Another interesting aspect of this chapter is to read about how Deaf parents feel about their Deaf children in depth (such as how their lives will be mapped out). As expected, Deaf parents treat their children as a mirror image of themselves.

Kleinman’s questions are more applicable to deaf people in general who are more in favor of and interested in improving their hearing through hearing aids, cochlear implant, and/or speech therapy. Therefore, they would be more likely to answer his questions even though they do contain the term sickness as these people are more to likely view deafness as a disability compared to people who strictly identify themselves as a part of Deaf culture. Also, Kleinman’s questions can be especially applicable for hearing parents with deaf children who want to raise them as hearing children. According to the ninety percent rule, ninety-percent of deaf children have hearing parents and ninety-percent of hearing children have deaf parents (Sparrow 141). Since hearing parents want to raise their children in the hearing culture, it is ideal for them to be able to utilize Kleinman’s eight questions as a means of providing a way for their deaf children to improve their hearing through hearing aids, cochlear implants, and/or speech

This Is What It Is like to Be Deaf from Birth is a story about Cristina Hartman, explaining her personal experiences with a profound hearing loss (becoming deaf). Throughout Cristina’s experiences she explains, that being born deaf is quite normal; in other ways, it's not. She talked about things she did that were “normal” such as playing sports, playing with kids in the neighborhood, joining a sorority in college, and talking back to her parents. But with experiencing “normal” things she had to experience situations that were not normal, such as having to learn ASL, becoming a part of the schools deaf program, and identifying herself into a culture other than her parents. Early in her childhood, Cristina got a cochlear implant. The implant

American Annals of the Deaf is an educational journal that is committed to providing educational experiences of high quality as well as related services for the deaf. This journal has been around for over 150 years, and over time they have been dedicated to making sure that children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing are receiving quality assistance for their disability (NEED CITATION). In July 1996, they published a scholarly article in response to a survey Catherine Gillespie and Sandra Twardosz conducted about the literacy environment and different practices that children are receiving in a residential school for the deaf.

The Deaf community contains the basic characteristics of any particular ethnic group, despite the attempts from hearing people to destroy their culture through medical interventions. This community contains members who share a feeling of community. They value recognition by others and self-recognition (Lane). They feel strongly identified in their group, as they create a family environment, which provides support for each of its members. Moreover, the Deaf community has a set of norms for behavior. In decision-making processes, they try to agree on the course of action to take through consensus and not just by individual initiatives. Allegiance to their culture is also another distinct value that characterizes the members of this community. People with hearing impairments have the “highest rate of endogamous marriages of any

“Huh?” “What?” “Can you repeat that please?” These are all sayings that people in my life have heard me say repeatedly. I had hearing loss that I was born with but didn’t really know about till I started school. At age 6, I took an eye and hearing exam at the school I attended, and they told my parents that they should take me to an audiologist because something was wrong with my hearing. Upon visiting the audiologist, we learned that I have a unilateral hearing loss, which meant that my right ear was nearly perfect, but my left ear had around 50 percent hearing loss. After knowing this information, my parents asked what any good parents would ask; “So what do we do to help her?” The doctor told us since it hadn’t affected my grades and I was able to adjust to the hearing that I had, he wouldn’t suggest getting a hearing aid, but to tell teachers to keep me close to the front and to the side where my stronger ear was to the middle. My parents sought for extra help with my speech and language, but the school didn’t allow it because of how well I was doing in class. So I lived life as normal as could be.

The Deaf community and their culture is a part of the oppressed population group. There are many limitations of being deaf in a hearing world. The Deaf community has been victims of isolation and oppression for many years. Historically the hearing culture has put Deaf individuals in social categories such as “disable” and “outsiders” (Pinquart, Pfeiffer, 2014). However, many years of being deaf has been viewed as having an undesirable condition.

My perspective on hearing loss as a disability or difference that is always on my mind and I never thought to be deaf or hard of hearing as a disability. One day, in the classroom at the University, a professor was discussing the list of disabilities. My interpreter asked me a personal question, “do you think you're deaf as a disability?” honestly I have paused and made me pondering for a few seconds. “Yes, I am deaf, and I don’t think myself as a person with a disability just because of hearing loss. However,

My overall position is that Cece’s partial deafness does affect her ability to develop relationships with her family and friends. My first claim is that Cece doesn’t have good friends and finding friends is what the stories about. My second claim is that Cece can’t make friends as well because she is deaf, and can’t hear them well. My third claim is that Cece’s ability to make friends is cut short by her deafness. These are my reasons for believing that Cece’s partial deafness does affect her ability to sustain her relationships with family and friends.

Ryan noticed that although other scholars had interviewed deaf survivors, there were several others who had not received the opportunity to share their recollections on video. The author writes, “The experiences of deaf people, who are often overlooked and underserved because of communication barriers, have been difficult for most historians to include. But the fact that people with physical and cognitive disabilities were selected for forced sterilization, marriage prohibition, and ultimately extermination was all too logical an outcome of Nazi racial theories and widely held eugenics beliefs” (Ryan, 2005, p. 44). Schuman and Ryan visited Canada, eight European countries, and cities in the United States to attend deaf community conventions in a search for witnesses. Ultimately, the researchers made some contacts through their affiliation with Gallaudet University, which is the only liberal arts college for deaf people in the world. Because Schuman is a CODA (child of deaf adults), his association with other CODAs allowed them to discover a group of deaf Jewish survivors in Budapest, Hungary. Schuman and Ryan then interviewed a dozen survivors over the duration of five days.

The Deaf Community has encountered a great deal of historical oppression from society that still resonates within the Community today. Recent literature has acknowledged the disconnect between the Deaf and hearing worlds, particularly in health and education settings. There are different and subtle ways in which hearing impairment can affect identity and relationships as people experiencing hearing impairment make many self-defining choices--of communication method; language; and social, cultural, and political allegiance. Additionally, the biomedical model and social model of deafness both group the hearing impaired, or the hard-of-hearing and those that are deaf into the same category, which creates misconceptions and silences individual

90% of all deaf children are born to hearing parents who never thought much about the deaf community (Bat-Chava). That is why in mainstream society, the quality of being deaf is seen as a disability rather than something to be praised. The common view of deafness is that it is simply a person who cannot hear and “is deficient in some way because

There is no time better than now to be Deaf because of American Sign Language (ASL) being viewed as a respectable foreign language, the access to interpreters, and increased opportunities for hearing people with deaf children.

In the same way that no two individuals are alike, nor are any two families with deaf or hard of hearing members. Due to the various ways that hearing loss can occur, the occurrence of hearing loss in any one family can vary. There are families with deaf parents and hearing children. There are families with deaf parents and deaf children. There are families who have never encountered a deaf or hearing impaired person that suddenly have a child who is deaf or hard of hearing. Hearing impairment affects different families in different ways. Many believe that families where both parents and the children are deaf or hard of hearing have an advantage, because the parents are already a part of the deaf culture and thus their children are born into the community. Meanwhile, hearing parents who birth a deaf or hearing impaired child have to adjust to a new way of relating to and communicating with not only their child, but also with those involved in the rearing of that child. Fortunately for these parents, organizations like the Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing exist to provide these families with resources, funds, and education to help them tread on unfamiliar territory. These kinds of organizations connect all families who have members with the disability, and no matter the family dynamic, there are resources for them to take advantage of, including legal aid. As seen in the short clip from the Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, early childhood, around the time of

Psychology is the scientific study behavior and mental processes. Psychologist’s theories are a set of hypothesized statements about the relationships among events. There are three theories of psychology that I can relate to in my own personal life. The three theories are deafness of the ear, dreams and also sleep disorders.