Living with Hearing loss

In Alice-Ann Darrow’s article “Teaching Students with Hearing Losses” she states that it can be difficult to involve students with hearing losses in the music classroom and in the regular classroom as well. There are a numerous amount of students with hearing losses ranging from the ages of six to twenty-one. About 71,000 of special education students struggle with a hearing loss. A majority of students go without knowing that they have a hearing problem. Although most people believe that a person must be good at hearing in order to be musical, it is stated to be not true. The music classroom is actually a great place for students to practice good listening skills. Since listening is a mental process and hearing is a physical. Objectives for hard at hearing students should include listening to music, singing, playing instruments, moving to music, creating music and reading music. Music should be presented to the student’s strength and preferences. It is also helpful to have students feel stereo speakers or instruments as well as the use of kinesthetic movements. Alice-Ann Darrow believes that involving students with hearing losses into the music class room can be difficult but in the long run beneficial to the student.

The condition Colin is likely to be suffering from is Presbycusis. Presbycusis is an age-related hearing loss, it is a hearing disorder that can be caused by a variety of different factors. It is usually a sensorineural hearing disorder but can be a conductive hearing loss. A conductive hearing loss is when it is caused by problems with the ear canal, ear drum, middle ear and the malleus, uncus and stapes this can result in reduced function of the tympanic membrane or reduced function of auditory ossicles. Most commonly it is as a result of changes within the inner ear, middle ear or the nerve pathways to the brain. The cochlea is lined with tiny hair cells; these hairs convert sound vibrations into electrical signals which are received at the brain by a nerve. These cells can become damaged over time this means electrical signals cannot be transmitted as effectively so hearing becomes affected. Long-term exposure to loud noises such as that from traffic and loud equipment which Colin would have been exposed to working as a mechanic can also be a cause of

Famous poet and activist Bryant H. McGill, once wrote, “One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” In a rather perverse case of irony, there is no culture that this speaks to more than the deaf community. The unsettling reality of oppression is that if you are not exposed or affected by it, you are not aware of its existence. This is the category that I have found myself a part of while learning ASL and by extension about the deaf community. In learning about the diverse and multi-sided culture that is the deaf community I can say with certainty that the prejudice they experience is not only horrifying but also unfounded.

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.

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.

Wearing earplugs for six hours has given me so much insight into what those who use hearing aids and cochlear implants experience. It has also given me a new appreciation for my ears. I did not realize how difficult it would be to attempt to communicate as I normally would with the earplugs in; however, it was frustrating, straining, and exhausting. I wore the earplugs in three different situations. The first setting was with my roommates at home, the second setting took place in a shopping trip to the mall, and the third setting in which I wore earplugs was a cell phone conversation with my mom. These experiences were trying, but ultimately gave me a better understanding and empathy for individuals who are hard of hearing; this exercise will

Getting older means losing a lot of things. (e.g., one’s hair, eye sight, or hearing). Hearing loss can effect a person’s life as a whole. Polku, Mikkola, Rantakokko, Portegijs, Törmäkangas, Rantanen, & Viljanen (2016) believes that when a person has hearing loss it affects their mobility in the world. They did a study questioning whether older adults with hearing impairment lose their ability to be mobile while they are out in the world. This is an interesting question because it is strange to think that having a minor deficiency such as hear loss can affect your ability to do regular things (Polku, Mikkola, Rantakokko, Portegijs, Törmäkangas, Rantanen, & Viljanen, 2016).

When you look at someone that you have never met before, you don’t immediately assume that they are deaf, but so much of the population in the world are deaf. One in five hundred children in America are born without the ability to hear, and usually are born to parents that do have hearing. “Hearing loss in adults can either be inherited from your parents or acquired from illness, ototoxic (ear-damaging) drugs, exposure to loud noise, tumors, head injury, or the aging process. This loss may occur by itself or with tinnitus (ringing in the ears).” (ASHA). Fifteen percent of the american population over the of 18 have hearing problems that could last their entire life. This is some much of the population, and we don’t give it enough recognition.

Would you rather be able to hear or see? When we asked or class the votes were split pretty evenly. 40% said seeing and 40% said hearing. The other 20% were other.

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.

Throughout the years, music has changed society and culture in many ways. Music has brought about a change in the entertainment world, bringing sounds and rhythms to the world of television, festivals and much more. With music available in the world, it brought about many famous musicians, musicians that knew how to play an instrument really well such as Elvis Presley and BB King. However, not all musicians were physically perfect. Some musicians were either blind or had a certain type of disability. However, in the article “Teaching Students with Hearing Losses” by Alice- Ann Darrow, it explains how students are capable of playing and listening to music just as like any other person. All this comes to the point that music can be taught to anyone no matter if ones blind or has a certain disability.

I wore one earplug on Sunday. Honestly, I never thought wearing one earplug could be so frustrating. Not only hearing is difficult, but also comes to speaking. When I first put on the earplug, my right ear was a little uncomfortable. Then I went to the church in the morning. I couldn’t hear exactly what the pastor was saying in the front because I sat at the very back. I had to pay extra attention and tried to catch the word he said. Also, when we were singing, it was so annoyed because I heard the differences of my own voice from two ears and that was quite distracting. During the basic conversation, if my friends were talking to me sitting on the left side, I can hear and understand. If they were sitting on the right side, it felt like they

The incidence of Hearing loss (HL) in humans worldwide is 1 in 1000 live births (Nele Hilgert, 2009). 50% of the cases of HL are due to Genetic factors where congenital or prelingual hearing impairment is detected (Morton, 2006). Genetically, Nonsyndromic hearing loss (NSHL) is a heterogeneous disorder due to the complexity of auditory system (Gao X, 2013). Arabian Peninsula is a consanguineous population, so most of the NSHL is inherited in an autosomal recessive (AR) pattern of inheritance. Currently, a total of 87 NSHL genes have been identified (http://hereditaryhearingloss. org). Most of these gene mutations are inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. One of the most frequent causes of ARNSHL is mutation in transmembrane channel-like gene 1 (TMC1). The most common ARNSHL in TMC1 reported is the nonsense mutation p.R34X, which accounts for over 30 % of TMC1 in Asian and North African populations (Ben said M, 2010).

In this society, people try to understand other types of cultures and groups, however, that does not always happen. There are people who have many misconceptions and others that just make stereotypes about a group. People are being misjudged because of all the stereotypes being made. Misconceptions and stereotypes are two different terms. However, both are direct to a certain group. Every person sees a group differently, that is why there are many stereotypes and misconceptions. Men and women have different points of view, resulting in different kinds of stereotypes. Deaf people are perceived as people who need to get “fixed”, who are not capable of anything, and who are freaks.

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