| I come to discover that deaf people have their own | | | | know the deaf community, they could willingly remove |
| culture, which should be allowed to prosper with all | | | | this blockage. Deaf people can be fun, distance or too |
| human being. | | | | possessive and demanding, when they fear of not |
| I honestly feel that we, who are from the hearing | | | | having an equal rights as a hearing person is facing |
| world, should attempt to treat deaf people as an equal | | | | them.. Although they identity themselves as highly |
| society, and for them to respect us from the hearing | | | | valued; deaf people seem to have a little difficulty to |
| world for not judging them, or to suspect that our | | | | agree that a hearing person can never fully obtain that |
| motives is simply from being sorry for them, because | | | | identity and become a qualified member of the deaf |
| they have the same feeling as we all do, If it is | | | | community without any challenges. |
| emotional or physical. Although I believe we all need to | | | | Speech and thoughts like a hearing person are |
| take some motivational training and life coaching, so | | | | pessimistically valued in deaf culture. Most members of |
| we all can be in an equal harmoniums relationship with | | | | American deaf community are simply baffled when |
| one to another. Like all human beings, even deaf | | | | told they are disabled. The audit establishment started |
| people have tantrum, anger and emotional issues that | | | | being called Hearing-Impaired instead of deaf. Had the |
| can lead to written abuse / like people from the | | | | deaf community been asked about this they would |
| speaking worked, who use verbal abuse and an | | | | have learned that "deaf" is not negatively valued - |
| physical abuse, those behaviors have nothing to do | | | | "hearing-impaired" is. "Deaf refers to shared culture, |
| with being deaf, it has allot to do with ones growing up, | | | | language, and experience; "hearing-impaired" seems to |
| witnessing and learning from home or the society and | | | | refer to a physical defect that someone outside deaf |
| all environment subliminal messages... | | | | culture possesses. |
| I never grow up around deaf people, only lately that I | | | | Deaf people easily throw temper tantrums because |
| come to work in my hypnotherapy practice with very | | | | they could not understand what was being said to |
| intelligent deaf people and also have the privilege of | | | | them by their hearing parents or partners, and both |
| socializing with some of them... The point I am making | | | | world need to learn to communicate if they chose to |
| is, that our society tend to separate the deaf from the | | | | share life together. |
| hearing, and it is not by all mean to hurt them, but it is | | | | On a more historical perspective, the audists have |
| from lack of knowledge and understanding the other | | | | devised a five-stage program that has continually |
| world... The bottom line is that I have come to realize | | | | forced deaf children to assimilate into a hearing world. |
| that deaf people is a circumstance and it is not a | | | | First Stage: is Oralism-this was the late 19th century |
| handicap and any effort to cure that circumstances is | | | | ban of signed languages and deaf teachers from |
| like trying to fix something that is not broken, and is a | | | | residential schools. |
| fact, that is why there is no reason to feel sorry for | | | | Second Stage: was called day schools, which were |
| them or treat them differently, they are no different | | | | established on a large-scale basis. They were |
| from us. | | | | established so that children could live at home in a |
| The deaf community believes that it is a linguistic | | | | majority language environment. |
| majority, not disabled. I come to discover that | | | | Third Stage: the dominance of the majority language is |
| deafness is a tragic medical condition, not a choice we | | | | reinforced (in this case English). This stage is often |
| have as a human being. It is like with religion, people | | | | called total communication, where a teacher would use |
| tend to separate individual because what religion they | | | | all forms odd communication available so that they |
| were born into, did any one asked the newborn what | | | | may communicate with their deaf pupils. |
| religion they want to be born into? Did any one asked | | | | Fourth Stage: is known as mainstreaming. In this model |
| for their agreement, or approval? NO, They had no | | | | the deaf students are scattered among the districts |
| say, they just born into it. Deaf people are visual | | | | local schools for hearing children. |
| people; they also have their own visual language, social | | | | Fifth: final model is the medical model, surgery. |
| organization, history, and background, which can be | | | | The FDA has approved the cochlear Prosthesis. They |
| challenging to a regular person if they are not familiar | | | | have been authorized to conduct surgery on children. |
| with it.... | | | | Reports have shown that children who receive the |
| That is why I believe they should be involved... It is the | | | | cochlear implants are no better at hearing or speaking |
| best healthiest thing to do, to create a happy life style | | | | as the adolescent who uses a hearing aid or becomes |
| for all human being, regardless to religion, race or | | | | deaf later in life. |
| gender eca. Deaf children and adult faces many | | | | For the most part, deaf people are no longer |
| obstacles in life, but the lack of communication at | | | | considered defective, It is no longer excepted in our |
| home, inferior education in school, discrimination in | | | | hearing world as a bad thing for being deaf, deafness |
| relationship, employment, are obstacles placed in their | | | | is more and more excepted in our society. |
| way by hearing people who, if only they came to | | | | |