Essay On Deaf Problems

The root of many problems is that society tends to try to only fix issues that personally affect the individual. Since America is an individualistic culture, we tend to help solve problems that are motivated by personal achievement, past situations and immediate results. A lot of times we forgetting the bigger picture and looking at a grand scheme issue I would like to solve the lack of education for language available to deaf citizens of third world countries. To begin, according to World Federalization of the Deaf, “Most of the Deaf people do not get any education in developing countries and approximately 80 % of the world’s 70 million Deaf people do not have any access to education. Only about 1-2 % of the Deaf get education in sign language.” (“Human Rights”). So the problem is that in many cases hundreds and hundred of people that live in isolated areas are not able to learn a signed language due to lack of resources and technology, leaving many stuck living in an isolated dark world. I became interested in sign language when I was in middle school, simply because it was a secret
“The critical age for learning language is around 21 to 36 months old. During this period, much of the cognitive infrastructure in a person’s brain is developed and it is thought, much of it is developed as a result of learning language.” (Hiskey). This shows that a humans thought process is based on language, making language essential in living an interactive, full and healthy life. For hearing children learning a language is very easy since most of their parents speak the same language. However, the majority of deaf children are born into hearing families, and unless a family with a deaf child lives in a developed country where there is access to education and Deaf communities, a normal life for a deaf child may not be