A Journey Into The Deaf World Summary

Ty’onna Key
A Journey into the Deaf-World

In a Journey into the Deaf-World the author uses a revolving door to explain how hearing people may see the Deaf-World and that felt very accurate for me. I love seeing Deaf people sign, its fluid and expressive and I think beautiful. I also feel like I won’t reach that point anytime soon, or be able to sign with a Deaf person outside of class. The books assigned help give insight to the Deaf community and their practices. It’s also really helpful in learning what to not do/ learn what’s considered rude. I liked that this book included the story of the different deaf characters. It’s nice to hear about their lives and get an insight to some of their activities like the club.
I’ve learned enough about Deaf culture that I can understand why some of the things Gloria did wrong in her interview was wrong. She was a little put off by the amount of information they wanted on her, but understanding how the Deaf-World views information sharing, I understand why they want to know and what their purpose is.
In some cases, its due to audiologist and other hearing specialists not telling the parents about ASL options or even mentioning other Deaf people/communities. I don’t understand why audiologist don’t tell parents about the option of sign language. To me. As a hearing person, learning/using ASL goes hand and hand with being Dead. We have read numerous testimonies and reports on ASL being a part of the Deaf identity. It’s essential that a person be able to communicate with others. It completely baffles me how some hearing people believe signing is not “normal” or a deaf child (in Laurel’s case pg