Ty’onna Key A Journey into the Deaf-World In a Journey into the Deaf-World the author uses a revolving door to explain how hearing people may see the Deaf-World and that felt very accurate for me. I love seeing Deaf people sign‚ its fluid and expressive and I think beautiful. I also feel like I won’t reach that point anytime soon‚ or be able to sign with a Deaf person outside of class. The books assigned help give insight to the Deaf community and their practices. It’s also really helpful in
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ASL-1 Thoughts on Voices from A Culture When I finished reading the book I realized that I had just learned way more than I had been expecting. Just reading the first chapter was enough for me to be awestruck by the intricacies of the Deaf culture‚ but as I continued reading I realized that the depth and many levels of social structure are so detailed that being able to fully understand them would be simply impossible. I was very impressed with the amount of respect that the word Deaf conveys
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I attended my first deaf event at the local Starbucks in Sea Cliff Village in Huntington Beach on November 16th. My experience was defiantly worth remembering and was quite enjoyable. Just approaching the door and seeing through the windows the hearing and the deaf practice and communicate with each other was inspiring. I was a bit apprehensive and nervous to strike up a conversation but next thing I knew I was being welcomed with warm hugs and loving smiles. There was a group of about thirty members
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the intensity of a noise is the increase in the energy in its sound waves‚ and if this energy gets to a certain point it creates damage in the humans ear (70 dB). There are approximately 40 million people who have hearing loss in America and a fourth of these people are having hearing loss because of noise intensity. The damage is done specifically to the different sized hairs in the concha in the human ear‚ not allowing them to transmit high and low pressure vibrations to the nervous system through
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health promotion‚ disease prevention‚ palliation‚ protection from harm and rehabilitation. I described audiologist specific role and how I fits into comprehensive care. Stating that audiologist play a large role in health promotion‚ preventing hearing loss and in rehabilitation. Furthermore‚ I described my thoughts and feelings related to audiologists’ role with in comprehensive care‚ as well as how these may impact my future behaviour. Expressing that I feel sad and think it unfair that financial
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Gallaudet University is a bilingual university using both sign language and English communication. It is a 99-acre federal chartered private university for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing education in Washington D.C. The university is 152 years old‚ founded on April 18‚ 1864 by Congress. The three founders of the university are Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet‚ Amos Kendall‚ and Edward Miner Gallaudet. Abraham Lincoln signed the college’s charter to make sure the deaf get degrees. “Gallaudet University
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At the beginning of the term‚ I felt excited yet hesitant to learn ASL. Learning a second language has always made me uneasy and unsure of myself because of the rapid pace and the vulnerability it takes to allow myself to make mistakes. As the weeks progressed‚ my anxiety lessoned‚ and I realized I had no reason to fear! American Sign Language makes so much sense to me. So far‚ it does not contain any of the convoluted dimensions that General American English has. I am excited to learn more about
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Deaflympics. This event is similar to the original Olympics but the main differences are the requirements. To participate in the summer and winter Deaflympics‚ according to International Committee for Sports of the Deaf‚ one must be: Deaf‚ defined as a hearing loss of at least 55 dB per tone average in the better ear (3-tone frequency average at 500‚ 1000 and 2000 Hertz‚ ISO 1969 Standard) and a member of an affiliated National Deaf Sports Federation and citizens of that country. There is no general age
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You are approached by a Grandparent who is hearing impaired how do you facilitate the best environment and through your body language and how you speak with him to ensure you communicate with him in a way which meets his needs and is respectful of his impairment I was approached by a child’s Grandparent with an hearing impairment who wanted to speak to me I instructing the Grandparent to follow me to somewhere quite‚ has this allowed us to speak and there to be no interruptions or other notices
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have a deaf niece she has a cochlear implant. She was lucky enough to have it done early in life around two years of age‚ and she is doing very well. It’s very enlightening to hear how the deaf community in these videos view the cochlear. Me being a hearing person I would see the cochlear as a blessing like Peter’s brother and wife‚ but to Heather’s parents it was seen a threat. I can understand why. Naturally change is unwanted by many people.The deaf culture is all they know they don’t see it as a
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