Deaf Informative Speech
a. Attention Getter: Have you ever thought about what it was like to not hear? Imagine yourself losing your hearing and unable to enjoy the sounds of the bass, the melody or the rhythm from that one song or any music. Not only have I thought about it, I have experienced first and second hand.
b. Credibility: I grew up with a Deaf friend and seeing her struggle made want to help still enjoy her childhood especially through music. She loved to dance and “try” to sing but she lost her hearing when she was four and she kept pushing me away. I was five years when this happened; I didn’t know what Being Deaf meant until I asked my mom who was taking American Sign Language at the time. I acted on innocence and acceptance as a child, so I didn’t give …show more content…
up our friendship because of some hearing loss. So I gave some lyrics her favorite music and helped her sing it. Unfortunately, by the time she regained her hearing back she moved away. I still miss her. As for me, when I was seven years old, I lost my hearing for a week from a minor car accident but to my parents “I could have died”. Honestly, I was fine with losing my hearing, because I felt like I was closer to my friend than ever. I didn’t pay attention to music but I liked to listen to the radio. My story is not relevant to my speech but I knew it what it means to lose my hearing even if it was for a little while.
c. Special Purpose and Central Idea: I am here to explain how Deaf people are able to “feel the music”, the ways of a cochlear implant can get them on a road to normalcy as well as the history behind the people that helped made the discovery.
d. Transition Sentence: Let’s start with the question on most people’s mind: what does feeling the music mean?
B. Body I
a. Did you know Deaf people can hear music without actually hearing it? The sense of touch or sense is more developed on a deaf person more than a hearing. Rachel Gross’s music and aural theory teacher says “you need to feel the music through your whole body not through your brains and ears”. Any deaf or hard of hearing person can use their bodies to feel the vibrations especially through your brain.
b. For example, if you place your hand or foot on a piano, you can feel the vibrations. You can feel or sense the rhythm and pitch. The vibrations through the body can tell whether it is a high or low pitch.
c. There was a professor of Radiology named Dr. Dean Shibata who discovered that the Deaf have the ability to feel the vibrations in the exact same part of the brain as hearing people; the primary auditory cortex. Which explains how deaf musicians are able to sense the vibrations. “These findings suggest that the experience deaf people have when ‘feeling’ music is similar to the experience other people have when hearing music. The perception of the musical vibrations by the deaf is likely every bit as real as the equivalent sounds, since they are ultimately processed in the same part of the brain,”
d. Shibata did an experiment with ten deaf college students and eleven students with hearing. By using a fMRI and MRI, he found that certain parts of the brain sets us a sensor that hearing people have when they listen to music.
e. A FMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is a functional neuroimaging procedure that uses MRI technology that measures brain activity by detecting associated changes in blood flow. It can help the doctors detect what you are thinking or feeling, it probably can tell if you are telling the truth. The machines measures blood flow in the brain and it’s brighten up to show what parts of the brain is active.
f. Both groups showed movement Deaf people felt the vibrations in the areas of the brain where the brain show hearing activity. Shibata says that this information is helpful to the deaf community because it suggests that deaf children should be exposed to music early in life.
g. Even though, they have a unique and cool way of listening to music, Deaf people sometimes want to be normal and gain their hearing back. That’s where the cochlear implant comes in.
C. Body II (should get rid of it).
a. Most people would use a cochlear plant but the rest chooses not to. As of December 2012, there are about 324,000 Deaf people with cochlear implants and.
b. A hearing aid is very different from a cochlear implant.
c. What is a cochlear implant? A Cochlear Implant is an electronic medical device that does the work of damaged parts of the inner ear (cochlea) to provide sound signals to the brain.
d. It is surgically placed under the skin behind the ear. It includes microphones that picks up sounds then a speech processor prioritizes audible speech externally splitting the sound into channels and sending the electrical sound signals though a thin cable to the transmitter. The transmitter is a coil held in position by a magnet placed behind the external ear that transmits power and the processed sound signals across the skin to the internal device by electromagnetic induction.
e. A receiver and stimulator secured in the bone beneath the skin concerts the signals into electric impulses and sends them through an internal cable to electrodes. An array of electrodes wound through the cochlea send the impulses to the nerves in the Scala tympani and then to the brain through the auditory nerve system.
f. There are 20,000 people worldwide that have cochlear implants but 8,000 of them are children from the ages of 5-13.
g.
Now there are people in the world who don’t want the cochlear implant. There are a lot of Deaf musicians who don’t have implant and they are successful in their own opinion
D. Body III
a. How many of you guys know any Deaf singers or musicians that are famous or who are going to be famous? Because of the hearing loss, there are not a lot of Deaf people creating music but they can enjoy it just as much as hearing people. There is only one Deaf musician that started this new discovery for us and the Deaf.
b. Let’s start with the famous Beethoven, he became Deaf at the age of twenty-six years old. Some say that his father beaten him in the head which caused him to lose his hearing. Beethoven says “My hearing has grown steadily worse over the last three years, which was said to e caused by the condition of my belly”. For two years, he avoided social gatherings because it seemed impossible for him to say ‘I am Deaf’. After a while, he accepted his deafness. His deafness did not stop him from creating the greatest symphonies in the world. Beethoven is pure proof that music isn’t just in the ears but from the heart and soul. After Beethoven became the first Deaf pianist, others followed his footsteps towards creating their own
music.
c. Next we have Mandy Harvey; the jazz singer who stills pursues her career as a Deaf singer. She always had a hearing problem, she had varies of ear infections but those only resulted her to sit in front of the class to hear the lectures. Her love for music kept her going when her hearing was disappearing. She attended Colorado State University to start her career but her career was ending because her hearing became much worse.
d. She was depressed for a year before she decided to continue playing the piano and use her voice to sing the pitches. Apparently, the doctors found out that she can her up to 110 decibels. Of course she still use the vibrations from the piano to sense the rhythm.
e. Sean Forbes has been deaf as long as he could remember. He lost his hearing completely when he became severely ill at the age of one. Music was always a part of his life His inspirations were the Beatles and Motown, attracted to the vibrations and rhythm from the beat. He started playing the drums at the age of ten.
f. Later on, he became a rapper; rap and hip hop music has the craziest bass so he could get into the beat. After shooting a sign language video with the song Eminem Lose Yourself, he produced his EP which led to a record deal.
g. Why stop there, he started a non-profit organization called Deaf Performing Arts Network. D-Pan promoted creative opportunities for Deaf artists in every category.
h. Now just because we lose our hearing doesn’t mean we lose of sense of touch and the love of music. We can do so much more. Even with or without the cochlear implant.
E. Conclusion
a. Deaf people are not hopeless; they can still feel the music, get a cochlear implant or look up the Deaf Musicians to give them inspiration. We as hearing people take our ears or listening to music for granted because once it’s gone we are completely hopeless. Don’t lose you hope and faith because you lost one of your important senses.
b. When one sense is gone, your other senses can make up for it. When you lose your hearing, your eyes and sense of touch can become heighten. When you lose your sight, you ears and sense of touch and help you with walking and sounds. You get the general idea right?
c. A cochlear implant can help get your hearing back but not all the way, you might be able to hear certain pitches and speeches.
d. There are a lot of Deaf musicians out there, who know this information and they have become famous/ known for this new way of listening to music.
e. Next time, you ask Deaf people hoe can they can listen to music; don’t underestimate their ability to feel. Don’t take your senses for granted because if you lose one and you become so hopeless you need to open your mind up to the possibilities.
b. Credibility: I grew up with a Deaf friend and seeing her struggle made want to help still enjoy her childhood especially through music. She loved to dance and “try” to sing but she lost her hearing when she was four and she kept pushing me away. I was five years when this happened; I didn’t know what Being Deaf meant until I asked my mom who was taking American Sign Language at the time. I acted on innocence and acceptance as a child, so I didn’t give …show more content…
up our friendship because of some hearing loss. So I gave some lyrics her favorite music and helped her sing it. Unfortunately, by the time she regained her hearing back she moved away. I still miss her. As for me, when I was seven years old, I lost my hearing for a week from a minor car accident but to my parents “I could have died”. Honestly, I was fine with losing my hearing, because I felt like I was closer to my friend than ever. I didn’t pay attention to music but I liked to listen to the radio. My story is not relevant to my speech but I knew it what it means to lose my hearing even if it was for a little while.
c. Special Purpose and Central Idea: I am here to explain how Deaf people are able to “feel the music”, the ways of a cochlear implant can get them on a road to normalcy as well as the history behind the people that helped made the discovery.
d. Transition Sentence: Let’s start with the question on most people’s mind: what does feeling the music mean?
B. Body I
a. Did you know Deaf people can hear music without actually hearing it? The sense of touch or sense is more developed on a deaf person more than a hearing. Rachel Gross’s music and aural theory teacher says “you need to feel the music through your whole body not through your brains and ears”. Any deaf or hard of hearing person can use their bodies to feel the vibrations especially through your brain.
b. For example, if you place your hand or foot on a piano, you can feel the vibrations. You can feel or sense the rhythm and pitch. The vibrations through the body can tell whether it is a high or low pitch.
c. There was a professor of Radiology named Dr. Dean Shibata who discovered that the Deaf have the ability to feel the vibrations in the exact same part of the brain as hearing people; the primary auditory cortex. Which explains how deaf musicians are able to sense the vibrations. “These findings suggest that the experience deaf people have when ‘feeling’ music is similar to the experience other people have when hearing music. The perception of the musical vibrations by the deaf is likely every bit as real as the equivalent sounds, since they are ultimately processed in the same part of the brain,”
d. Shibata did an experiment with ten deaf college students and eleven students with hearing. By using a fMRI and MRI, he found that certain parts of the brain sets us a sensor that hearing people have when they listen to music.
e. A FMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is a functional neuroimaging procedure that uses MRI technology that measures brain activity by detecting associated changes in blood flow. It can help the doctors detect what you are thinking or feeling, it probably can tell if you are telling the truth. The machines measures blood flow in the brain and it’s brighten up to show what parts of the brain is active.
f. Both groups showed movement Deaf people felt the vibrations in the areas of the brain where the brain show hearing activity. Shibata says that this information is helpful to the deaf community because it suggests that deaf children should be exposed to music early in life.
g. Even though, they have a unique and cool way of listening to music, Deaf people sometimes want to be normal and gain their hearing back. That’s where the cochlear implant comes in.
C. Body II (should get rid of it).
a. Most people would use a cochlear plant but the rest chooses not to. As of December 2012, there are about 324,000 Deaf people with cochlear implants and.
b. A hearing aid is very different from a cochlear implant.
c. What is a cochlear implant? A Cochlear Implant is an electronic medical device that does the work of damaged parts of the inner ear (cochlea) to provide sound signals to the brain.
d. It is surgically placed under the skin behind the ear. It includes microphones that picks up sounds then a speech processor prioritizes audible speech externally splitting the sound into channels and sending the electrical sound signals though a thin cable to the transmitter. The transmitter is a coil held in position by a magnet placed behind the external ear that transmits power and the processed sound signals across the skin to the internal device by electromagnetic induction.
e. A receiver and stimulator secured in the bone beneath the skin concerts the signals into electric impulses and sends them through an internal cable to electrodes. An array of electrodes wound through the cochlea send the impulses to the nerves in the Scala tympani and then to the brain through the auditory nerve system.
f. There are 20,000 people worldwide that have cochlear implants but 8,000 of them are children from the ages of 5-13.
g.
Now there are people in the world who don’t want the cochlear implant. There are a lot of Deaf musicians who don’t have implant and they are successful in their own opinion
D. Body III
a. How many of you guys know any Deaf singers or musicians that are famous or who are going to be famous? Because of the hearing loss, there are not a lot of Deaf people creating music but they can enjoy it just as much as hearing people. There is only one Deaf musician that started this new discovery for us and the Deaf.
b. Let’s start with the famous Beethoven, he became Deaf at the age of twenty-six years old. Some say that his father beaten him in the head which caused him to lose his hearing. Beethoven says “My hearing has grown steadily worse over the last three years, which was said to e caused by the condition of my belly”. For two years, he avoided social gatherings because it seemed impossible for him to say ‘I am Deaf’. After a while, he accepted his deafness. His deafness did not stop him from creating the greatest symphonies in the world. Beethoven is pure proof that music isn’t just in the ears but from the heart and soul. After Beethoven became the first Deaf pianist, others followed his footsteps towards creating their own
music.
c. Next we have Mandy Harvey; the jazz singer who stills pursues her career as a Deaf singer. She always had a hearing problem, she had varies of ear infections but those only resulted her to sit in front of the class to hear the lectures. Her love for music kept her going when her hearing was disappearing. She attended Colorado State University to start her career but her career was ending because her hearing became much worse.
d. She was depressed for a year before she decided to continue playing the piano and use her voice to sing the pitches. Apparently, the doctors found out that she can her up to 110 decibels. Of course she still use the vibrations from the piano to sense the rhythm.
e. Sean Forbes has been deaf as long as he could remember. He lost his hearing completely when he became severely ill at the age of one. Music was always a part of his life His inspirations were the Beatles and Motown, attracted to the vibrations and rhythm from the beat. He started playing the drums at the age of ten.
f. Later on, he became a rapper; rap and hip hop music has the craziest bass so he could get into the beat. After shooting a sign language video with the song Eminem Lose Yourself, he produced his EP which led to a record deal.
g. Why stop there, he started a non-profit organization called Deaf Performing Arts Network. D-Pan promoted creative opportunities for Deaf artists in every category.
h. Now just because we lose our hearing doesn’t mean we lose of sense of touch and the love of music. We can do so much more. Even with or without the cochlear implant.
E. Conclusion
a. Deaf people are not hopeless; they can still feel the music, get a cochlear implant or look up the Deaf Musicians to give them inspiration. We as hearing people take our ears or listening to music for granted because once it’s gone we are completely hopeless. Don’t lose you hope and faith because you lost one of your important senses.
b. When one sense is gone, your other senses can make up for it. When you lose your hearing, your eyes and sense of touch can become heighten. When you lose your sight, you ears and sense of touch and help you with walking and sounds. You get the general idea right?
c. A cochlear implant can help get your hearing back but not all the way, you might be able to hear certain pitches and speeches.
d. There are a lot of Deaf musicians out there, who know this information and they have become famous/ known for this new way of listening to music.
e. Next time, you ask Deaf people hoe can they can listen to music; don’t underestimate their ability to feel. Don’t take your senses for granted because if you lose one and you become so hopeless you need to open your mind up to the possibilities.