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    Olof Hanson – First Deaf American Architect Slide One: Background His parents were Hans Larsson Hanson and Nilla Rasmusdotter Born September 10‚ 1862 in Fjälkinge‚ in Skåne County‚ Sweden Died September 8th‚ 1933 (Age 70) in Seattle‚ Washington Olof lost his hearing at the age of thirteen. Slide Two: Background Continued His father died in 1874 just shortly after the family had planned to move to the US. Since his father had died the family postponed moving till the next year (1875). Just two

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    September 10th‚ 1994 was my first day of 6th grade. This was also the first day that I came in contact with the Deaf world. During recess‚ my friend Elizabeth brought out a new girl by the name of Megan Leschly. She was deaf‚ and her interpreter‚ Ms. Rosener‚ did not go out to recess to help her communicate. This was the day I started to learn sign language. From 6th grade to 8th grade Megan went to public school with me and all of our group of friends. We celebrated everything together

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    Perry Miles Professor Parker English 1010 Composition 1 24 June 2009 Paper I: Marlee Matlin - Deaf Actress‚ Cultural Icon Marlee Beth Matlin was born on August 24‚ 1965 in Morton Grove‚ Illinois to Libby and Donald Matlin. She is the youngest and the only female of three children. She is an Academy Award winning actress and a world renowned spokesperson for various organizations. Marlee lives in the greater Los Angeles area with her husband‚ law enforcement officer Kevin Grandalski‚ and

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    you to do something‚ and yet brush it aside as though it was meant for someone else? I became enchanted with American Sign Language in high school‚ when I befriended a Deaf group of students. I now realize I was fascinated by the language because‚ unbeknownst to me at that time‚ I am a visual and kinesthetic learner. Any time I saw Deaf people or Sign Language Interpreters in the community‚ I couldn’t help myself but to watch them. By the time I was a mother of two I knew I wanted to be fluent in the

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    those who are deaf or hard of hearing‚ view it as their culture. The ideal of culture plays a major part in self-identification‚ especially in those who have alternate circumstances. In the movie‚ Children of a Lesser God‚ the main character (played by Marlee Matlin) is deaf‚ stubborn and non-verbal. The

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    really brave and pushed myself a bit in order to achieve something. One of those brave moments that is still stuck in my head till today is when I did a deaf cultural experience. I wanted to put myself in other people’s shoes and see what they’re going through‚ and how they cope with life. I was thinking about a place where I should do my cultural deaf experience‚ and one of my best friends Danica invited me to her aunt’s engagement party. It was a huge party‚ I would have mistaken it for a wedding.

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    of Deaf Culture After watching the videos about how deaf people go along with their daily life‚ I realized there isn’t very much that is different than how someone who can hear lives there daily life. When watching all of the 5 people‚ I noticed that every single one of them used a video phone or cell phone‚ computers‚ and other gadgets. I didn’t know how much technology they actually used‚ and I was quite surprised‚ and interested in more‚ or other technology that is out there for the deaf community

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    “Society should not focus on research to cure deafness‚ claim the Deaf culturists‚ but should accept Deaf people as composing a cultural minority and respect their right to live as Deaf person.”(Bonnie Tucker 1997) The subculture that I research/analyzed was the Deaf community at Santa Fe College. When asking many students on campus on whether they have knowledge about this community and its existences many people respond with “No”. With so many people responding this way‚ this was the reason why

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    strictly that deaf children who do want to sign often feel guilty. In the 1940s there were 312 schools for the deaf. Many schools teach children to lipread. 25% of what is spoken on the lips. In the 1960’s‚ telephone device for the

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    Deaf Children’s Language and Barriers To Overcome In this paper I am researching the obstacles and barriers deaf children must overcome. Two to three of 1‚000 children in the United States are born with detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears. Every year 10‚000 infants are born in the United States with sensorineural deafness. Many become deaf before the age two. Experts agree that a child must be exposed to an accessible language on a regular and frequent basis before becoming

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