The Deaf Child Should Not Be Legal

According to Beauchamp and Childress, the principle of autonomy asserts that a capable and competent individual is free to determine, and to act in accordance with, a self-chosen plan (Beauchamp and Childress as cited in Keating and Smith, 2010). Determining a patient's competence is critical in striking a proper balance between respecting the autonomy of patients who are capable of making informed decisions and protecting those who are not fully capable (Appelbaum, 2007). Tagging children incompetent solely on the basis of their age and not involving them in decision making regarding their health is violation of children's human right. Obtaining consent from parents, rather than children, negates one of the most important principles of medical ethics, which is patient autonomy. Nurses are obligated to promote the health of children by embracing children's right. Nurses' duties which stem out of respect for autonomy include both duties to ensure children's self determination is respected and to refrain from practices that interfere with the children's right of decision making (CARNA,

(n.d.). Part one: the deaf community and cochlear implants my child can have more choices: reflections of deaf mothers on cochlear implants for their children. Cochlear Implants: Evolving Perspectives. Retrieved February 09, 2018, from http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/excerpts/CIEP.html

Studies have shown that if a child receives a cochlear implant before the child is 18 months old followed by intensive therapy the child is likely to develop language skills that are comparable to their peers and many children are able to attend mainstream schooling. This sounds great to parents, but what happens when the cochlear implant doesn’t work or if the child doesn’t receive the necessary therapy for understanding sound using the cochlear implant. Because the children were not exposed to American sign language (ASL) this can delay the children education and learning compared to their peers. When children are born to hearing parents they want the child to be like them and be able to hear. To the hearing, deafness is a disability and if there is a way that they can make their child hear, most parents will do everything in their power to make sure they can give that to their child. Then again, many parents forget is that living with a cochlear implant is a lifelong process and involves years to decades of therapy for their child. And if a child receives the implant later than 18 months old it becomes harder for the child to understand speech from a cochlear implant and more intensive therapy for the child. Children start learning language from their parents listening to them talk to others and talk to the baby. If the child is deaf, they are missing this important development of speech, which makes it harder for the child to learn to speak and understanding language. Also, most hearing parents don’t know ASL or sign fluently to be able to teach their children the language and help them to start learning and be able to communicate with society. Today there are still parents that will not learn ASL even though their child is deaf or maybe they received a cochlear implant and it didn’t work. This

This is because my child can belong to both worlds and can decide what they are personally. My child could identify has hearing and would want to learn more about the hearing world and know how to talk better. Also, my child could identify as being Deaf and would want to sign and be Deaf. My child has that choice of being Deaf or “hearing”. My child would be taught to talk because she can communicate to those who don't know sign language and sign for those who don't know how to talk. He/she could belong to the Deaf community and understand what's it like to be deaf and Deaf. My child could still talk to her relatives and still feel like she belongs to the hearing world. Later on, he/she could pick whether she/he wants to be hearing or Deaf. If she/he picks to be deaf, she/he could take off the implant and still have all the abilities to be a Deaf person. If she/he picks to be hearing, she could get another implant and have all the abilities to be a hearing

This book was mainly focused on looking at Deaf culture of today and comparing it to the culture of the past, and what kinds of struggles deaf people had to endure to get where they are today. The two authors of this book are deaf; one was deaf her whole life and the other became deaf as a child. In my opinion, that was a major contributing factor to why it was so interesting. The reader gets a chance to travel through the history of the Deaf through words from those who have experienced it. It also had a positive impact because the authors let the readers know in the introduction that they are deaf and a brief history of themselves, which I

Sign language, cochlear implants, or both? It is the debate that has plagued parents of young deaf children all over nation. They are torn with the decision between potentially restoring the hearing of their child or immersing them in the beauty of Deaf culture. It seems that no matter what decision they make, there will be backlash. The Deaf community feels like a member is being taken away from them, and hearing people cannot understand why someone wouldn’t want their child to have the ability to hear. Though we cannot fully understand what it is like to be faced with this choice unless we have been in this position, we can explore the pros and cons of either side. So what is it that leads to some parents to make the leap for cochlear implants and turns others towards the sign language side?

In the article “Victims from birth” Wendy McElroy, ifeminists.com, is about Sharon Duchesneau and her deaf son named Gauvin. Duchesneau, being a lesbian, selected a sperm donor(along with her partner Candace McCullough). Duchesneau and McCullough are also deaf. The donor they selected was based on his family history of deafness to insure their son Gauvin would also be deaf. Duchesneau goes on to say that Gauvin “is not profoundly deaf… but deaf enough” (McElroy 1). Gauvin was born with slight ability hear to. Gauvin would be able to hear well enough to perform normal functions with help from a hearing aid. However, Duchesneau and McCullough made the decision not to supply a hearing aide for their son. McElroy

The advent of new technologies such as the cochlear implant will not ultimately eradicate Deaf culture. The Deaf community is too close-knit to become torn apart. Not everyone has access to these new technologies because they are not eligible for them or the price is not right for their low budgets. Similarly, not everyone will be successful with the cochlear implant and most will return to Deaf culture for the rest of their lives. However, for those who are successful, they can still be a part of Deaf culture if they are bilingual and have adequate access to the Deaf community and its members. Knowledge is power and ASL education is spreading throughout high schools and universities all over the United States. These are several factors that

Although most state schools today have been adjusted to meet the needs of deaf pupils by providing help, such as, interpreters, note takers and radio aids; in previous years when schools could not afford to obtain the help, educational accomplishment for most hearing impaired pupils would have been fictional. Only 29% of deaf children were accomplishing the standard five GCSE’s A*-C, compared to 51% of their hearing peers (Cathy Heffernan, 2011).

The problem faced by the deaf community is the injustice they encounter when in the criminal justice system. Someone who is deaf or hard of hearing has at least a 50 percent loss of hearing in one ear (Ridgeway 2009), and some may be able to read lips. However, only ½ of all spoken sounds can be translated into American Sign Language (Ridgeway 2009), which makes it difficult for the deaf to communicate without using sign language. Because English and sign language are not the same language, many deaf people are illiterate because of a lack of schooling past a certain age. Even those with schooling up to the age of 18 or older are often functionally illiterate, read at a grade level of second grade or below, and have unintelligible speech

Crouch, on the opposing end, would disagree with Tucker’s justifications as to why cochlear implants should be provided at an early age. In this case, he would side with the friends of Sean and Mary with saying that these implants would completely eliminate the child from the Deaf community. He believes that one should take pride in being a part of this unique community as opposed to viewing it as a disability or impairment. Crouch’s reasoning behind this is that by a parent deciding to adapt their child to a world where they think their child would be “better-off” is not acceptable. But doing so, the child is less likely to succeed, contrary to what Tucker believes. Crouch would propose that parents should not force cochlear implants upon

It is hard for a parent to give an assent since it isn't reasonable for the parent to pick in the event that they need their Deaf tyke to utilize oral technique or have that tyke get a cochlear embed. In the event that a parent embeds their kid they are dismissing the Deaf culture. Truly in a youthful age embedding your youngster can get an opportunity to hear when they are more seasoned, however I have companions that got a cochlear inserts when they were at a youthful age, and it was hard for them to hear when they got more established. A ton of grown-ups who have been hard of hearing most or their entire life will acknowledge it and never again be in the hearing society and let their kid wind up noticeably hard of hearing and utilize oral

Those that oppose cochlear implants argue mostly from a minority standpoint. The deaf community feels that as the minority, the hearing majority is threatening their way of life. “The deaf community is a culture. They’re much like the culture of the Hispanic community, for example, where parents who are Hispanics, or shall we say deaf, would naturally want to retain their family ties by their common language, their primary language, which is

In the article should the Deaf Be Considered an Ethnic Group? By Susan Seligson the author examines the attitudes towards the deaf community and their classification in society. The author claims that the deaf community has major hurdles to over come to become a ethnic group including the medical industries affection toward technology like cochlear implants which are usually implanted into infants who may have hearing difficulties with doctors medical advice. Seligson maintains the belief in which these implants are actually harmful to children because they can only marginally hear which effects the socialization of the child because the child has to try to hear with these implants opposed to learning ASL and being a part of a community. The

English is an interesting language ,English is comprised of many different words from different languages all mashed up and mixed together. English is a very hard language to learn, especially if you can’t hear it. How easy would it be to confuse a “B” with a “P” they sound similar and when trying to lip read how can you tell the difference? I feel that young Deaf/hard of hearing students should be taught by a Deaf teacher or a child of a Deaf adult (C.O.D.A) teacher is important because ASL is the first step to learning English and becoming bilingual. According to the article Why Schools for Deaf Children Should Hire Deaf Teachers: A Preschool Issue By Courtney Shantie and Robert Hoffmeister, the authors state “This paper will focus on the theories and facts behind why bilingual education for Deaf children is the best option” (Shantie and Hoffmeister, 2003). I feel that the topic of if Deaf/hard of hearing students being taught by Deaf/C.O.D.A teachers is very important because it is the best way to help students succeed.