Personal Narrative: I Am Deaf

Prior to reading these chapters I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I have never really been exposed to the Deaf- World. I have watched shows such as Switched at Birth, but I know that it doesn’t completely portray the real Deaf- Community. I was extremely interested in seeing their side of the story and gaining insight on the life they live. I decided to read chapters one, and two.

Sign language was their true language. It was their natural way of communicating . I believe that it should be the deaf person's choice about learning to speak. Forcing it on someone and prohibiting from using their own language was not the right way to go about things. I'm glad that the time where the oral method was forced on the deaf is over and that they are now free to use sign language.

In the novel Seeing Voices (1989), Oliver Sacks digs into the exploration of American Sign Language and the culture of Deaf people. Sacks studies the complex ways and effect in which language is used to impact the cognitive part of the brain. The Deaf community is very different from the hearing impaired because the community has had its challenges, language, and history. Denied the opportunity to take in a language, a child will grow up uneducated with no means of understanding and in no way have the ability to communicate with another person. With that being said deaf people in past were not "dumb" or uneducated in fact it was never their fault they were like that, but it was because they never had the chance of being taught a language.

I found Deaf Again to be both a very saddening and uplifting autobiography. It was saddening how hard it is for a deaf or Hard of Hearing person to both be part of or even mesh with the hearing community.i find it uplifting because he found his plot on life and he has a place that he feels is satisfactory to live in. I did find one piece of information very interesting though. that was that while he was born being able to hear and was not deaf. the fact that his parent were deaf caused him to become hard of hearing.

Coming into the light consists of a Deaf person’s journey towards finding their Deaf identity. As we learned in class, some Deaf people struggle to find their identity due to not knowing the resources available to them or having bad experiences with hearing people. This causes them to have a little d but when they find who they truly are they develop a big D and embrace being Deaf. As for the visual scream, it is when someone makes a visual gesture that seems like they’re making a loud sound but there is no sound with it. This is often seen in silent films or done by Deaf performers to add emotion to their performances.

The book Deaf Like Me by: Thomas S. Spradley & James P. Spradley is started in the summer of 1964, in Minnesota with Louise and Tom. Bruce their first son had contracted the German measles while Tom was teaching at Carleton College in Northfield. After finding out that Bruce had the German measles Louise beginning to worry if she was pregnant. They decide to go to the doctor to see if she was pregnant, because the German measles cause birth defects if contacted within the first three months of the pregnancy. To their surprise Louise is pregnant.

Teachers may be unprepared and uninformed about how to best provide accommodations for deaf students, as well as being unsure of how to work with an interpreter. In additional, interpreters may be untrained in how to work well with the teacher in educational settings, lacking in proper certification, or incapable of adapting their interpretation

My first destination as an individual with a hearing loss was the Café. When the lady at the entrance took my ODU card and told me to have a nice day I realized right away that it was awkward to talk. When she gave my card back to me I said “thankyou”. When I said “thankyou” it felt like I couldn’t hear myself that well. So I wasn’t sure if I was talking really low or really high.

Mark was born in 1966 to two deaf parents. Although the circumstances and troubles his mother had during the process of his birth he was born healthy and hearing. Mark tells that his parents were forbidden from teaching him sign language. I cant image growing up with deaf parents and have little communication with them. Deaf or not parents should always be encouraging to their children to learn to speak with their children.

Inside Deaf Culture Inside deaf culture is a very strong book written by carol Padden and tom Humphries in this book authors have tried to give a tour of the most important moments that has shaped the Deaf culture. Book starts by showing how much power hearing people have had over the deaf population in the past and how they saw death people almost the same as criminals and also how they tried to get rid of them by placing them into asylums and intuitions and how this was a beginning of first schools for the deaf and how much power and control they had over the children under their care also there was a lot of rumors of how children were molested in these schools and because they

After this event I felt like I got a little taste of what Mark had experienced in the book Deaf Again, but the roles were switched I was hearing in an all deaf environment instead of being deaf in a hearing environment like mark was. Although this type of event could have scared me away from future deaf events it didn’t. The reason why I am looking forward to events like this in the future is because I’m going to persevere and improve so next time ill understand a little more and sooner or later ill understand everything that’s going on. Knowing how bad my ASL is makes me just want to get better. Therefore, there are many things I could improve onto make my future experiences better and I’m looking forward to the next

From taking my first-ever ASL class to a Deaf culture class, I have learned a lot about a community that is right under my nose. Reading this book has also changed my outlook for the better on the Deaf culture. Many people stereotype Deaf culture, to be weird or not useful. As a hearing person who has never had to daily communicate within the community, I find myself learning more and more every day about customs and the way of living by the Deaf. I think of the saying some people use “Deaf and Dumb” and I think to myself how this even came to be.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia during my 10th grade as I was slow in learning and writing. I was provided with accommodations for my 10th and 12th grade Board examination by the Central Board of Secondary Education. However, I did not use accommodations during my undergraduate study in MBBS and I had progressively improved in my scores and writing speed with the help of peers and teaching faculty and my own perseverance. With how far I have progressed scholastically, I strongly believe I can independently perform tasks without any aid.

My qualifications that demonstrate my ability to be an asset to your Master Degree program of Education of the Deaf, is my background in Deaf Studies where I have received my Associate degree at Quinsigamond Community college. Furthermore, my degree has allotted me the necessary communication skills and cultural sensitivity, needed in order for me to work with the individual who has been the diagnosis of hard of hearing and deaf. In addition to my educational background, some of the following course have further my ability to better understand and work with individuals within the American Sign Language community is my Intermediate ASL 1&2, Introduction to the field of interpreting, and American Deaf -Culture to name a few. My reasons

This class showed me that concerts can have sign language interpreters, along with talk shows and most other events. Not only is sign language helpful for people who have hearing problems but can also be used in numerous occasions. For example, if you are somewhere where it is too loud to talk, sign language can be used to communicate. Or if the opposite is true and you are somewhere quiet where you cannot speak, then sign language can come in handy. Sign language is gaining popularity, and the more who are familiar with it, the more useful it can be to