ASL 1 Reflection

When we don’t have the knowledge of other culture, we tent to judge because we tend to be naïve. There are many people in this world that share values, believes, and culture we are similar yet different. Not knowing how to react to other peoples’ differences because our low education level, is different from having a higher education and still feel superior to other people however, being in the lower education should not exclude people from being responsible of their actions. Before, the deaf communities where different in the eyes of the hearing world. Humans can be so cruel at times and there is not stop, however in orders to stop people’s ignorance education is a valuable tool that people should take advantage of. Before I attend Porterville Community College I graduate from High School when I graduate I didn’t retain information; I didn’t care about my education. Before I attend Porterville College, I didn’t have an idea of deaf people when I heard deaf I’m like what does that mean. Now by taking ASL 1 I had an idea of signing currently taking ASL 2 I want to learn about signing, deaf community, and what they do, so

I think that deaf people have a highly attention skill because signing requires paying attention to detail, every movement they make have different meaning even though the signing is somewhat similar to the one before. In this book also describes that long ago they use pager and TTY to be able to communicate with other deaf people so this conclude that texting was first introduce from TTY and pager. The book is very useful for people because it gives example of ordinary deaf people they do struggle and they have to adapt to the hearing environment luckily they don’t hear all the noise that is surrounded, in some cases noises can cause stress especially if living by the highway and cars pass back and