A Journey Into The Deaf World Chapter 1 Summary

Sara Nović’s novel True Biz is, at its core, a depiction of the struggle between the Deaf community and its hearing counterpart. Much of the book is spent describing how hearing people who fail to understand the Deaf community have mainstreamed their deaf children through the use of ASL deprivation and the use of cochlear implants. Nović feels pride about the Deaf community and wants to teach us about it so that we in the hearing world can better help to prevent its destruction. Unfortunately, in doing this, Nović has painted a one-sided picture regarding the use of cochlear implants by failing to include examples of successful ones, her depiction of Austin's family struggle around the issue, and most importantly, by glorifying the destruction of the bionics lab.

She doesn't see deafness as a disability and she attended public school. Kambri Crews has a mixture of both deaf and Deaf traits, so she could be seen as both deaf and Deaf culturally. I learned quite a few new facts about Deaf culture from reading

The novel of Laurent Clerc: The story of his early years is about how Laurent Clerc the “Apostle to the Deaf in the New World”(Carroll 171) became educated and led to the creation of a school for the deaf in America. Laurent was born to a wealthy family in La Balme, France. He was grew up during the French Revolution, while the Directory was in charge. His parents throughout his young life tried to cure him of his deafness by having many doctors examine him and do painful procedures with no success. Eventually his parents sent him away to The Royal National Institute for the Deaf in Paris, or St. Jacques.

I have recently watched your documentary film “Sound and Fury” about the cochlear implant, and have seen the pressure you have been facing from your relatives on being for and friends who are against the cochlear implant. I may not be able to fully understand the challenges that you may have faced in the deaf culture, I have some insight on how it is like after reading the article “The Mask of Benevolence”, by Harlan Lane, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, on how the procedure is done and the challenges that kids may face after the implant. In the documentary Heather’s grandmother mentioned about how deaf culture is starting to become extinct due to people not being exposed to the culture as time goes by and that

Sparrow explains, “ According to the testimony of many individuals who are members of Deaf culture, it is perfectly possible to lead a happy and productive life without hearing or spoken language” (137). The deaf culture believes that deaf people do not need cochlear implants to fit into society. They believe that deafness is not a disease and does not need to be fixed. With a cochlear implant, it is not used to fix the deafness, it is used to help with the person to give them more of a normal life and to help them have the ability to fit into society

For a Deaf Son is a documentary about Thomas Thranchin, who was born deaf to hearing family. His father, a filmmaker, produced this documentary to offer an intimate look at how parents of a deaf child make decisions. The documentary is compiled together with interviews from audiologist, families of children with hearing loss, other expert in the field, as well as home videos of Thomas. Thomas was discovered to be profoundly deaf at the age of one and could only hear high frequency sound. This meant that with hearing aids on him, he could acquire speech and language with therapy.

We still see discrimination against Deaf people today and they continue to fight for full acceptance. The literary theme in Framing ASL Literature cannot correctly introduce the Deaf culture without first

I never realized that St. George was such a big area in deaf individuals. I always saw it as a winter getaway and vacation spot, but for them, it is their lifetime home. In the book, I thought it was cool that he told the story about how his family treated him and it made him feel like an outsider and that he needed to change. I never want to be that hearing person that makes others feel like they aren’t worth it because they are deaf and they need to change. From now on my plan is to respect and encourage the deaf to be themselves and never push them to become something they are not.

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

In a hearing culture, a person undoubtedly thinks of the word literature as meaning a written form of storytelling. However, in Deaf culture the word “literature” may also refer to Deaf literature or ASL literature. Although both Deaf and ASL literature use similar structure they are different from one another. Deaf literature is written stories, poems or songs that include Deaf characters or Deaf experiences utilizing a Deaf perspective, ASL literature involves visual movement and just like when a person reads a book compared to seeing the movie it may be similar yet, it is different. Unlike just signing a word to convey its meaning, ASL literature becomes more akin to an actor performing in a play.

For one, deaf individuals are increasing cultural awareness as “[t]here are a number of famous Deaf people from different countries and of different age groups on social media” (Tannenbaum-Baruchi & Feder-Bubis 4). An example would Marlee Matlin, an Emmy-winning deaf actress who recently competed on the popular television show, Dancing With the Stars. Her overall experience on the show was quite groundbreaking as she “dismiss[ed] the popular misconception that deaf people cannot relate to music” (An 5) through her ability to still dance to music given her hearing impairment. People often assume that because of their hearing impairment, deaf individuals are unable to enjoy music. However, Matlin’s performance is a clear example of how she was still able to dismiss that common misconception, educating the public more about her condition.

One is that hearing people are usually more discreet about many subjects. In comparison, Deaf people are blunt and very open because of the fact that Deaf people often miss out on subtle information due to the way hearing people converse. Furthermore, Deaf people are usually more collective than

When the parent does want the child to learn, they often try to find a deaf school for that child. With each state having a school for the deaf, often the larger deaf communities surround it. Those who are deaf and involved in their communities are considered Deaf with a capital "d". Dr. Malcolm said, "Deaf people value and respect their Culture in the same way Hispanics or African Americans

Communication between the deaf parent/s and the hearing child is perhaps the most negative issue. Studies show that most deaf parents have no problem accepting their child’s ability to hear, but are aware that parenting forces them to address things they have no idea about. The stability of the family is affected by the flow of information and understanding of any given situation. With hearing families this is more open and the larger community, but the flow of information changes drastically with the addition of a deaf member; moreover, it can be severely restricted or all together blocked when families with deaf and hearing members do not have a mutual communication system. Although ASL is a legal language for family interaction, sometimes

In Audism Unveiled, the producers included subtitles for the signing-impaired, and I thought this very important dialect because normally movies include subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing viewers. However, it is very significant to emphasize that it is not the deaf community that needs auditory assistance but rather the hearing community needs assistance to fully understand the meaning of sign language. Audism was coined in 1975 as a term to place advantage upon hearing people and should be treated the same as racism or sexism, all serious forms of oppression. I also thought the contrast of the terms language and speech was very eye opening from a hearing perspective because throughout my life, I always thought the terms to be synonymous.