My Deaf Experience

The authors visted different places in France to understand  the orgins myth of sign language. They were invited to by the local Deaf club in Marseilles, France, to a spcially oranized dinner. They heard a story again about Abbé de l’Epée and how he met two deaf women. As he wonder outside in the dark, he found a a house and as he entered the house he found two young women. When he spoke to them they didnt respond. He didnt know both girls were deaf until the mother walked in. He then decided to educate Deaf students. He became very known for creating the signs and educating Deaf

In chapter 5, This chapter was very interesting to me. This chapter was about the way that Deaf people view sign language. One interesting thing to me was when William C. Stokoe’s suggested classification of sign language. Rather than classifying sign language based on the English dictionary,

His senior year of high school he applies to only two major colleges; Purdue University and Rochester Institute of Technology, he was accepted into both. He and his grandfather had dreams of him going to Purdue and playing on their wrestling team; he didn’t think he’d get in. RIT was out of the question but with his mother’s encouragement he applied as well. While at his first year at Purdue, he struggled. He only knew how to read lips, and the large fast pace classrooms were too much to handle. Although he had an interpreter in all his classes, it was useless. He barely knew any sign language and his grades were affected by his inability to comprehend what the professors where saying. Eventually he was kicked off the wrestling team due to his grades. This scene in the movie made me realize that Deaf people could not only read lips, but they should all learn how to sign as well. Sign Language is a universal method of communication between Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing people.

Louise was informed by doctors and Friends not to use gestures or sign to Lynn but to only talk to her and treat her as a normal child so that she someday may become oral and learn to speak.

This was the first deaf event that I attended this quarter. I was even more excited about it than I was before. I always had fun before, even though it always started with a little bit of embarrassing. Because compared to people who really sign in their daily lives, I knew very little signs, so I always feel like I cannot communicate with them that much. After last

Seeing Voices is a profound novel that was written by famous neurologist, Oliver Sacks in 1989. Seeing Voices is a book that delves into the history of Sign Language and expresses a genuine meaning behind what language truly is.  Oliver Sacks is an engaging and fascinating writer. Being able to explore outside what he is used to, he can expand his knowledge about language. Being knowledgeable on psychiatry can help him get a better understanding of cognitive ability in the deaf community and the importance of why keeping Sign Language away from Deaf children is not beneficial for them in the hearing world. Like many of his books,

I chose the task of being deaf for about 4 hours which I thought may be the easer and safest option for me but I was quickly surprised that being able to hear contributes to so many things in my life. For example not being able to hear my kids call me when they say mom was sad because a mother will always know there child’s voice even if she’s in the middle of Time Square on New Year’s. Therefore not being able to come to their aid quickly was my biggest challenge. I wasn’t able to laugh at the things that they were laughing at when we watched our family movie. I couldn’t do my job at work of answering my customer’s phone calls because I couldn’t hear. I was afraid to drive because I was scared that I wouldn’t hear

For my Deaf event, I attended Deaf Coffee Night at Starbucks. When I walked in, I was happy to be able to look around and see people communicate through the use of only their hands, body and faces. I was also encouraged by the fact that I understood a majority of the signs I saw. After I ordered my drink, I approached a table of two people who were using ASL and I introduced myself. One person at the table was hearing while the other was Deaf, but both were happy to include me in their conversation. We talked for quite awhile about each of our lives. It was interesting to notice that throughout our conversation, the three of us were equally engaged in the conversation at hand about the lives of these strangers. This is a lot different then most conversations in the hearing world since most of the time we do not talk about our lives for that long and when listening to the lives of other people we do not actually care to pay close attention.

As described in Chapter two in Signing the Body Poetic, George Veditz is introduced as one of the Tellers. Tellers are known for their gift of storytelling, and commonly referred to as “smooth signers.” They are Deaf culture’s historians, entertainers, and teachers. They show the world ways Deaf survive as a minority culture. They also rely very heavily on visual feedback from the audiences. Veditz has achieved many of these Teller characteristics, specifically when he and his colleagues filmed speeches about ASL for the NAD in 1913. As a result, there was a huge feedback and a fundraiser

Around the end of the book, Walker writes, “The fluidity of the sign is what the person enjoys watching, the actual telling of the anecdote, not the point it makes, not the final note. In sign you get excited about telling fairly mundane stories because the vigor of your presentation is part of the language. You're watching and feeling someone communicate. The language is so physical that signers are far more engaged with each other during a conversation than are most people who talk. You move and the other

By Sacks being a neurologist, he has always been interested in the ways in which humans recoup from the loss of a perceptual ability. Sacks is quite enthusiastic about the unique expressive possibility of American Sign Language because of the use of visual space as the expressive mean. He is also interested in what the study of the deaf may reveal about the human magnitude for language,

After watching Through Deaf Eyes I learned many things about how the deaf were treated throughout American history. From being isolated from each other and discriminated against and teaching them to use their voices and read lips instead of signing. I also learned that not all deaf people use American Sign Language. Some use hearing aids, or cochlear implants. Also some use other types of sign language like French Sign Language or Spanish Sign Language.

While Bernard Bragg is known as a performer, he is also a play writer, director, poet, artist, and more. While this is a hard thing to accomplish, Bragg made seem essay. Some of the plays that he wrote and produce are: “Moments Preserved.”, “Tales From a Clubroom.”, “That Makes Two of Us.”, “On the Eve of Golden Wedding Anniversary.”, “Laugh Properly, Please.”, “To Whom It May Concern.”, “True Deaf.” And “A Journey Into the World of Visual Wonders.” As a poet he wrote, “wonder versus work”, “Poetry of Nature”, “The Sign Language As I Know It” to name a few. Bernard Bragg also experimented with pencil and paint. But, one of his big accomplishment is being one of the NDT founder. He also wrote books, “Tales From a Clubroom” this is one of his more famous play, “Lessons in Laughter: The Autobiography”, and “Meeting Half Way in American Sign

At first I was nervous about my placement. I was placed with Eddie as my Deaf guide a man who is full deaf and full blind. I have had no previous experience with anyone deaf/blind or with using tactile signing this was unsettling to me, I had no idea what to expect, or how the communication was going to play out between Eddie, and me. Would I understand him and if he would even understand me considering I don't know the technique of tactile signing was a major worry for me. Finally, after meeting Eddie I felt better about my placement. He was very understanding of the fact that I have never used this mode of communication or experienced interactions with Deaf/blind individuals before and was patient with me. Overall, I am excited that I got

His facial expressions and use of non manual markers were much greater than those of the other two videos. He was very easy to understand and used very strong ASL.