Assignment 5b

Choose any 3 classmates of project 5a.

KENDRA: http://kendra-human7spring09.blogspot.com/

From Kendra’s essay, she writes that American Sign Language is the third most used language in America. I did not realize that Sweden is a nation who officially recognized a spoken language and the use of a visual language. Using two ways of language are important to the people of Sweden they saw the need of reaching to a deaf world, they saw value in these people and felt they should be given all the opportunities possible to succeed in a world of hearing people.
Kendra also mentions the struggles that Leah Cohen saw as deaf students try to communicate with others. If not for the Lexington school and her growing up with deaf students she would never been able to be a voice for them. Her story in this book, “Train Go Sorry” Leah gives the speaking and hearing people a view inside the world of a deaf person and their struggles to communicate.

MARIA: http://mariagn.blogspot.com/

I learned from Maria’s essay, she tells about Cochlear implants. I did not know what Cochlear implants were until this book. From what the book told us, these implants once placed sometimes they have to come out. Reasons such as the skin flap become infected, or the body rejects the implant and the electrode array can be damaged because the electrodes were not put in right. There still needs to be more research for the Cochlear implants, not all of them are good to use, the after effects are mostly worse then better.

KATY: http://katyhuman7.blogspot.com/

In the essay written by Katy, she makes mention of how we take our hearing for granted. Everyday we do not realize how much we need and depend on our hearing. Crossing a street, we hear the cars coming, a bird in a tree singing, or a baby crying in need of care. In reading this book, I saw inside the world of a deaf person, the struggles they face everyday by not hearing simple sounds as a bird singing or someone calling out their name. They cannot even hear someone singing happy birthday to them. It also makes me wonder like Katy, does a child who is born deaf, find their childhood at a lost and not able to experience a normal childhood? Do they realize the sounds they are missing? I was once told, that with a person not able to see or hear, their world is as they see it, and they can become very content within their own world, because they do not know any different or miss what they never experience what they had no clue existed.