The Town For The Deaf Analysis
The Town for the Deaf
Before I had a deaf son, I had never met another deaf person. I know how that could be. There are about a million people that are Deaf or hard of hearing in America alone. When my son was born, the doctors gave him to me and informed me your son is deaf. You would think after that you get a ton of information about what to do, you do not you are thrown into the wilderness and trying to find your way out with a dim flashlight. With each passing day, you losing hope that you will ever find your way out at night and out of dark and the wolves come out and you can hear them getting closer. Wolves are the people that do not understand, they treat your child as if he is less than, they pity you and they pity him. Wolves disguise …show more content…
A language barrier for Deaf individuals deprives those people of human contact. Some deaf children grow up in families that never learn sign language making it difficult for them to communicate basic needs and emotions. Overjoyed with the expectance to college one student said, "I literally cried when I got my acceptance letter from RIT," the 20 year old from Ohio recalls. "I knew that this was the place where I would finally fit in and be accepted for who I am."(“National Technical”). Hearing or deaf the acceptance of going to college would deem this amount of emotion. For a deaf person this is more than just going to college, this is a chance for the individual to be accepted for who they are. This is because most deaf children grow up with a language depravity because out of the 90% of parents that had a deaf child only 10% of them will learn sign language to communicate with their deaf …show more content…
It is nice to know of the town of Rochester New York and the other big communities for the Deaf such as Saint Augustine the oldest city in America and Washington DC where Gallaudet University is. These places have made living in a hearing world less stressful for the Deaf and hope open the lines of communication to the hearing. If we can all be more like these cities, we can all learn from each other. I would love of my son to live in a world where he does not have to turn to me to ask, “What they
Before I had a deaf son, I had never met another deaf person. I know how that could be. There are about a million people that are Deaf or hard of hearing in America alone. When my son was born, the doctors gave him to me and informed me your son is deaf. You would think after that you get a ton of information about what to do, you do not you are thrown into the wilderness and trying to find your way out with a dim flashlight. With each passing day, you losing hope that you will ever find your way out at night and out of dark and the wolves come out and you can hear them getting closer. Wolves are the people that do not understand, they treat your child as if he is less than, they pity you and they pity him. Wolves disguise …show more content…
A language barrier for Deaf individuals deprives those people of human contact. Some deaf children grow up in families that never learn sign language making it difficult for them to communicate basic needs and emotions. Overjoyed with the expectance to college one student said, "I literally cried when I got my acceptance letter from RIT," the 20 year old from Ohio recalls. "I knew that this was the place where I would finally fit in and be accepted for who I am."(“National Technical”). Hearing or deaf the acceptance of going to college would deem this amount of emotion. For a deaf person this is more than just going to college, this is a chance for the individual to be accepted for who they are. This is because most deaf children grow up with a language depravity because out of the 90% of parents that had a deaf child only 10% of them will learn sign language to communicate with their deaf …show more content…
It is nice to know of the town of Rochester New York and the other big communities for the Deaf such as Saint Augustine the oldest city in America and Washington DC where Gallaudet University is. These places have made living in a hearing world less stressful for the Deaf and hope open the lines of communication to the hearing. If we can all be more like these cities, we can all learn from each other. I would love of my son to live in a world where he does not have to turn to me to ask, “What they