1 of 3 " Turning Rhetorical Melissa Felder an author with a hearing disability who attended Yale University explains her experience at Yale in her article‚ “How Yale Supports Students With Disabilities”; along with how other students with disabilities are treated as well. Although she does touch some on other students she focuses more on her hearing disability. Felder goes in to detail on her experience inside of the classroom along with outside they classroom. She compares how it was at
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Understand Sensory Loss Sensory impairment is when one of your senses such as sight‚ hearing‚ smell‚ touch‚ taste and spatial awareness are no longer normal. A person does not necessarily have full loss of a sense to be sensory impaired. Dual sensory impairment is when a combination of both hearing and sight is impaired. The combination of two sensory impairments intensify the impact of each other which usually means the person will not benefit fully from the services of deaf people or
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Lab Assignment #2 After completing this second lab assignment I have noticed a lot of new and interesting thing in deaf culture through watching the videos. Also as well as learning about deaf culture I learned to read signs at a faster pace and I also learned two new signs afterwards doing so. So to start things off ill begin talking about some unique qualities in deaf culture as well as how to handle the situation
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Oyler‚ A. (2011). Untreated Hearing Loss in Adults-A growing National Epidemic. Retrieved December 8‚ 2012‚ From http://www.asha.org/Aud/Articles/Untreated-Hearing-Loss-in-Adults/ This article explains untreated hearing loss in older adults and how it goes undetected. It also explains the impact it has on an individual‚ the benefits‚ and the results of the treatment. Incidence of hearing loss‚ increase with age. Approximately one third of Americans between the ages of sixty five and seventy
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Introduction With the rising of personal rights‚ there has been a growing discussion about special education‚ especially in the sphere of deaf education. For hundreds of years‚ people treat deafness as a kind of disease and disability. As a result‚ deaf people with a low self-identity are arranged in a vocational education system and are not heard by the mainstream society. However‚ there should and must be a different kind of view to give deaf people the right status in the society‚ to value their
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For my research paper‚ I read Deaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley. This is the story of Lynn and her parents learning to accept her deafness. This is set in the 1960s. During this time‚ there were fewer medical advancements compared to today‚ such as the rubella shot. There was also not much of an understanding disabilities and people who faced issues with deafness. Tom and Louise Spradley were a couple that had one child‚ Bruce. Bruce gets diagnosed with rubella just as Louise finds out she was pregnant
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There are many causes of blindness and deafness. Many are present and occur around the time a child is born which includes prematurity‚ childbirth complication‚ and numerous congenital syndromes‚ most of which are quite rare. Deafness and blindness may also occur later in childhood or during adulthood due to causes such as meningitis‚ brain injury‚ or inherited conditions such as Usher Syndrome that causes hearing loss and progressive vision loss. Education is the most important treatment in helping
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Anna Arce Ms.Ricciardi March 21‚ 2013 ASL‚ Period 7 Deaf For A Day Living from day to day as a Deaf person‚ you may encounter many unpleasant situations. Little kids staring‚ adults staring‚ employees giving you an attitude for them not understanding‚ and some people who are just plain ignorant to Deaf people because they’re different. Last Saturday I used ear plugs that gave me a mild hearing loss for a day while going through my normal activities; even
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ASL also known as American Sign Language or Ameslan is language that is communicated using gestures in the deaf community. In the deaf community the use of vocals in not necessary because deaf people can not hear so they effectively use a language the only includes visual gestural using hands. According to‚ American Sign Language a look at it history‚ structure‚ and community says that a total of one-half million American and canadians use ASL. In ASL the language is oriented by palm orientation
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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
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