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No Ordinary Hero is a movie about a deaf TV star, Tony, who is frustrated by the poor treatment of other deaf actors. Tony’s TV character was Superdeafy, a superhero that is able to sign and goes on whacky adventures with a insensitive cop. It also centers around a deaf boy, Jacob, in third grade whose father insists that he attend a hearing class instead of the deaf class the school offers. The father and mother have a constant struggle between how to best raise Jacob. The mother believes that he should take deaf courses and use ASL while the father wants him become like a “normal kid” by getting a cochlear implant. The movie brings up issues within the Deaf community in how they do not use interpreters in nursing homes and hospitals, the benefits of in class interpreters, and other adversity that deaf people face. Some of the things I had learned with the movie is how the education system works, and does not work, for the parents and deaf students. Jacob is faced with the many issues in his day to day school life. Even though his teacher is animated and tries to work with him, he still is unable to read lips well enough to process everything he is saying. The mother and father were floundering, unable to decide the best course of action for their son. The teacher informs them that he not only …show more content…
Or offering a class for deaf students specifically because in the various avenues of education I have been a part of, they never offered classes for deaf students. The father insists on having the teacher, who knows ASL, to just sign to Jacob while teaching the other students. As a future educator, that initially made sense to me. However, I learned that the teacher is there for the students and she is not legally able to do that. Also, “she’s a teacher in a mainstream classroom and she has a responsibility to 20 other kids. Her job is not an ASL interpreter”

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