How Hearing Affects Cece's Daily Life

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.

Even though Nicolette tries to remain strong and continue to not label herself disabled, however there are times she can not help but admit she has a hearing problem. Nicolette states, “When I lived alone, I felt helpless because I couldn’t hear alarm clocks, vulnerable because I couldn’t hear the front door open and frightened because I wouldn’t hear a burglar until it was too late.” She did not want to be labeled disabled because she was more than just a person with a hearing problem. Another quote that displayed self doubt is when Nicolette explains, “For the first time, I felt unequal, disadvantaged and disabled[...] I knew that I had lost something: not just my hearing, but my independence and my sense of wholeness.”

Darrow’s article was easy to read and focused on the importance of how to teach deaf students. Although I enjoyed reading it, the writer lacked to inform how students with hearing losses can differ and how this can

Heather’s life as a mostly deaf person is very interesting. She didn’t learn sign language until her senior year in high school. This means that she can read lips, which is common in the Deaf and hard of hearing community. In elementary school, Heather struggled to keep up with her peers. She could not understand her teacher most of the time, so she fell a grade or two under the rest of her classmates. After this, she went to her mother and

Imagine waking up to your mom flashing the lights and stomping her feet on the floor. You can vaguely see her feet moving and feel the vibration running through the room but you can’t hear her feet hit the floor. This is because you are deaf.

Betty G. Miller was born in 1934, and her parents were both Deaf. Betty had two older brothers who were hearing, so everyone just assumed that Betty was too, especially because she could clearly hear a little bit. It was a surprise to everyone in her family when she attended Kindergarten for the first time and was diagnosed as Hard of Hearing. This threw her family for a loop. Remembering all the prejudice and oppression they had experienced at the hands of hearing people, Betty’s parents decided that they wanted her to make the most use of whatever hearing she had. This is why they made the surprising decision to send her to Bell School in Chicago – a school known for Oralistic practices. Later, Betty’s parents took her out of Bell School

This can be very discouraging. Many children who are deaf find it difficult to make friends because most children communicate verbally. In the film Sound and Fury, a very young girl, named Heather, is caught in the middle of the deaf and hearing community. Heather was born deaf. Her immediate family is also deaf, but within her extended family, there are both people who can hear and people who are deaf. She longs to be able to hear like he friends at school that can hear. Her parents research and explore their options, and decide that Heather will not receive a cochlear implant. In the sequel to the documentary, Sound and Fury 6 Years Later, Heather has finally receives a cochlear implant. She is thrilled! She attends a normal high school, and is very successful. She has many friends, and has access to all the opportunities that her classmates do. She plays on sports teams and is in the top ten percent of her class. Later in life, she moved on to college and is now pursuing a law degree. This would not have been possible without a cochlear implant. Doors have been opened to the deaf community that were unimaginable just a few decades

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

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.

Medical professionals all over the world have paved the road for further research and technological advances in the hearing impaired spectrum. Implantations, such as the cochlear implant (CI), have given patients with profound sensorineural hearing loss newfound hope for habilitation and rehabilitation services. However, “there exists a small subset of deaf individuals who will not benefit from the CI due to (1) a small or absent cochlea, (2) a small or absent auditory nerve, or (3) injury or scarring of the inner ear or auditory nerve secondary to meningitis, trauma, or tumor” as stated by Kaplan et al. (2015). A treatment option for those who did not meet the candidacy qualifications for a cochlear implant needed to be implemented.

Losing our hearing as we age is scary. It causes changes beyond just the ability to hear things properly. Hearing loss modifies the way we perceive the world, and it may even alter our brains in dramatic ways over time. Discover how hearing loss might indicate cognitive decline and what you can do to try to prevent this from happening.

Self-reported hearing difficulties and changes in life-space mobility among community-dwelling older adults: a Two-year follow-Up study

Vocational Planning in the Public School for the Hard of Hearing” by Wanda E. Yerkes places emphasis on the feelings and hardships that Hard of Hearing students are forced to endure at public institutions or Vocational schools. Ms.Yerkes discusses prevocational principles, the hearing aid, adjustment to the aid, emotional and social guidance, counseling and academic and vocational preparatory work. Yerkes believes that a lot of the problems they experience can be alleviated with proper training from jobs and schools. She also believes that giving children that are hard of hearing speech and language classes, along with auditory training can help them succeed in the workforce. However this statement is the reason behind some of the anger in

Hearing loss is the most common physical disability in the whole wide world. In the United States alone, about 28 million people have some level of hearing impairment that interferes with their ability to understand normal speech and participate in conversations. Another 2 million cannot hear at all.

There is strong evidence for the use of hearing aids improve activity and participation scores with this effect persisting long term. There is less evidence in support of other aural rehabilitation strategies with evidence suggesting that the effects of this style of rehabilitation do not extend beyond the short/medium term. As mentioned in Wong and Hickson (2012), if this style of rehabilitation is provided alongside hearing aids during a trail period there may be a higher chance that the patient will persist with hearing aids and thus more likely to experience the longer term effect hearing aids can provide.