Universal Deaf Screening: A Case Study

In 1973 the rehabilitation Act was created. This act prohibits any discrimination against the disabled. It requires accessibility to employment, education, health, welfare, and social services.

In chapter 4, it explains how Deaf people live in a hearing world. Some people who have grown up with Deaf people really don't see Deaf people as any different than themselves. Verditz had an idea that sign language comes from spoken languages, English and ASL are similar and different from each other having English as my first language has helped me learn ASL but the sentence structures are very different from English. Sign language is a visual language.

Watching the film Through Deaf Eyes was eye opening to Deaf history and culture. The film was a great introduction and snapshot of what it is like to be Deaf and to live in not only the Deaf world but to also be a part of the hearing world. Watching the film and learning the history and the achievements that the Deaf have overcome was inspiring. It was also depressing to see the kind of oppression that Deaf people have faced and within their own community. One of the biggest things that I took away from the movie was that Deaf people can do anything they wish to do, besides hear. Seeing the way they stood up and demanded a Deaf president of Gallaudet University and that helping to influence the introduction of the Americans with Disabilities Act was inspiring. Whenever I would think of what it would be like to be Deaf, I thought of the immediate loses that a Deaf person would have and that just isn’t the way to look at it.

accept the diagnosis that their child is Deaf. They are in denial that may last

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, about two to three children out of every 1,000 are born with a detectable level of hearing impairment in the United States. Without hearing, children miss out on the acoustic correlates of the physical world, such as car horns and footsteps. Children are also limited in their exposure to patterned complexities in music and spoken word. These hard of hearing and deaf students grow and develop in unique ways compared to their hearing peers because of the stimulus they do not have. Researchers have focused on how communication methods for hard of hearing and deaf children affect their development in the physical, social-emotional, cognitive and communicative

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

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 and Hard of Hearing (DHOH) are understudied population and disproportionately impacted by cardiovascular diseases (CVD) due communication barriers (Mckee, Mckee, Winters, Sutter, & Pearson, 2014; McKee & Paasche-Orlow, 2012; Strong & Prinz, 1997). In considering the link between communication barriers and CVD attribute to insufficient English proficiency, inability to comprehend physicians’ spoken and written instructions, and inability to access community-based health outreach education programs in which all these surface factors increases the chance of DHOH developing CVD (McKee et al., 2011; Margellos-Anast, Estarziau, & Kaufman, 2006). The barriers that restrict access to health information suggest that

The Book I decided to read is called “Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf”. In this book the author Oliver Sacks basically focuses on Deaf history and the community of the deaf developed toward linguistic self-sufficiency. Sacks is a Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He became interested in the problem of how deaf children acquire language after reviewing a book by Harlan Lane. The book was titled “When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf”. This book was first published in 1984 and was published again in 1989. Before reading Harlan’s book Sacks did not know any sign language. The book encouraged him to begin studying sign language. Sacks became extremely interested on how the deaf learn to communicate with the ability of sound being nonexistent. He wanted to know what this process may tell us about the nature of language. Seeing Voices is made up of three chapters, the history of the deaf, a discussion of language and the brain, and an evaluation of the problems behind the student strike that occurred at Gallaudet University, in March of 1988.

Dr. Tommy Tyler, director of the Gospel Choir, is very interested in talking to you about how the District of Columbia Black Deaf Advocates (DCBDA) and the Silent Mission could be more involved in the worship service at Shiloh. Please contact him so that the two of you could explore this possibility.

The nursing role in this setting was screening of preschools and early head start children for developmental delays and abnormities. The different here is everything is brought to the children. The children/patients are pulled in groups of three, and some of them were pulled out one at time. The nursing students and Dr. Lee looked for signs like how do the children walk up steps compared to their age group. How do they hold a crayon? Can they throw a ball? Are they overweight for their age group? Do they have any signs of ear infection? We also assessed for lead toxicity in the blood. Many of these children did not like this. We found that distraction at this time results in the child not crying. The only requirements here was consent of the parent/ guardian and bring their child to daycare/school.

Dack travels all over the world inspiring his audiences with how awesome and beautiful ASL can be. I notice, Dack’s passion for sign language and storytelling truly comes out on the stage. His body language, facial expression, acting abilities made all his stories come alive. When Dack asked for volunteers, all the children jumped out of their seats, raising their hands with excitement. The entire audience was engaged with the performance, laughing at all the jokes. I notice that these all contributed to the warming atmosphere in the theater. On Saturday, November 11th the University of Minnesota Duluth ASL club offered a Deaf event presented by Dack Virning, a Deaf storyteller, and performer. His performance was broken up into a bunch of mini-stories, each individually illustrated through his

Deaf and hard of hearing people are just like us. They are not any different, but hears like us. There is some common misunderstanding, that is really annoying for Deaf and hard of hearing people. Those misunderstanding are can you understands us? Are you able to drive? Do you need a wheelchair? Can you read and write? Do deaf people have sex? Etc.…These kinds of questions annoyed deaf people the most. People do not realize that deaf people do not have as much as difficulty as normal folks thinks that they have. They can do almost everything and just as much no less. Sometime, they begged to be considered the same as hearing folks. They want to be equals, respected, and value just as much as hearing people. Sometime, we forgot to ask ourselves.

Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf (TDD) is a type of hearing assistive technology that allows individuals who are deaf to use text telephones. The device is approximately the size of a small computer and is connected with a QWERTY keyboard. The TDD will display the message of the sender to the recipient electronically in a typed format. A Teletypewriter, also known as Teletype (TTY), is an older term for the Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf.

Of course, it shouldn’t really matter who a Deaf person gets together with. It should be about their connection with that person, not whether if that person can hear or not. But in reality, the success of any relationship comes down to communication, and this is the particular challenge facing couples where one is deaf and the other is hearing. I would make a Deaf relationship work by letting my partner feel equal. I wouldn’t view him as Deaf, but I would see him as a regular person. Because that’s what he is, a regular person. I would supply a “Deaf-friendly” environment for him. I would give him the typical responsibility of a husband, not a hearing husband, not a Deaf husband either. He is utterly my husband. A Deaf-friendly environment