Personal Reflection On Deaf Culture

Learning that people had to protest to get fair representation in the 1980’s seems crazy to me. My first thought was, how could any hearing person ever represent the needs and feelings of the deaf community? Though I understand many people grow up in the deaf community and are hearing, that does not award them the right to understand the struggle of the deaf community or what it’s like actually being deaf. I’m glad to know that every Gallaudet president since the protest has been a deaf president. I’m also very glad I watched this movie, as I feel the history of deaf culture is one few hearing people know, but I think everyone should understand more about a community that lives among hearing people every day, and does not receive its deserve

Tressa Bowers’ life changed when she gave birth to a deaf daughter. Throughout the process of raising her, she learned about and became a part of a whole other community. Her view of deaf people drastically changed from the beginning of the book to the end. Tressa had first begun to suspect Alandra’s deafness around the time Alandra was five months old. Part of it may have been a mother’s intuition, part of it may have been due to paranoia over losing her other two children or spending time with Linda’s deaf daughter, Joy.

The story of Lynn Spradley’s journey is for every parent who believes that their child isn’t normal. I learned a great deal about what it truly means to be deaf from this book. Reading this story brought out much emotion as the story progressed. Lynn’s parents Tom and Louise reaction of every parent’s worst thought when having a child. Everyone believes that there child is going to be healthy and fully functioning ready to be a part of the world.

Deaf role models all have significance and meaning in their life and career. Interesting comparisons can be made through each individual character. These comparisons will be made between Dummy Hoy, Rocky Stone, and Lance Allred. Education in the early years for William Ellsworth Hoy (Dummy) included going to a school for the Deaf at Oregon and even becoming the valedictorian for his graduating class. At the age of three, William got meningitis leaving him deaf and mute.

Visual art is a very significant aspect of Deaf culture, because everything experienced by the Deaf population is visual, even their language. Art in this culture, like any other, is used to express connectedness, emotion, and the hardships these people have experienced throughout their history. In this paper I will be discussing two very famous artists in the Deaf community, Chuck Baird and Betty G. Miller, and their greatest accomplishment for art in the Deaf community that makes them now inspirations to past/future/present Deaf artists. First, I will discuss a little background on our two artists and some interesting things they have done. Chuck Baird was born deaf on February 22nd of 1947 in Kansas City.

They offered to send me any new information that was available and said that I should return again. This experience really affected me, because I usually do not feel any connection during a religious service. I do not have any affiliation to a church, but this experience really intrigued me to return. I was amazed at the depth of signing provided by the interpreters and captivated by the religious signs that I had never seen beforehand. I am keen to return and hopefully meet more people who are a part of the Deaf

 I will improve my body gestures for perfect public speaking.  I will improve my learning, listening and reading skills because it will enhance my public speaking skills  I will improve my verbal and non verbal communication at individual and public speaking level and I believe that this will enhance my skills as a good public speaker.  I will improve my memory so that I may not forgot my words and may have good eye contact with my audience during a public speak.  I will learn the skills which are helpful to keep the audience engaged during a public speak. To achieve these goals I will adopt different strategies such as I will make practice of speaking in front of my family and friends.

My family has known about my great grandpa's dementia since I was a little girl. I did not know about his condition until I was about eleven years old, that was when it became too rough to hide. Dementia is a chronic disorder caused by brain disease marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. Growing up I thought it was natural for my papaw to lose his memory the same way it was natural of him to lose his hair. Papaw had fourteen siblings and the last four of them had this disorder.

As a child, I lived in fear because of traumatic experiences. Starting in fifth grade, I witnessed a social worker take my cousin, from my arms, into the foster system. Afterward, I was terrified of being taken away until the end of my freshman year because I had social workers in my life. Once the social workers were gone, the fear of losing my loved ones began. During ninth grade, my mom discovered she had a spinal tumor and needed surgery.

Funny enough, my sister adopted a baby from my aunt who was born with autism. Sweet Templar was born with autism, and my family continued to use the word “retarded” without ever considering her feelings or how it made us look to others. I think back to when we used such offense words without the thought of the after effects. Such derogatory terms as the ‘R” word has led to extreme emotional, mental and physical pain.