Summary: A Journey Into The Deaf World
Verdi Olsen
ASL-201
M - Th 1:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
January 30, 2015
RJ- #2
A Journey Into the Deaf-World
Chapter 2
Families with Deaf Children
Summary:
The chapter talks about Deaf children born into families, either with parents that are Deaf or hearing. It gives an understanding of what its like to both Deaf and hearing parents in contrast.
Starting with a Deaf baby been born to Deaf parents, most Deaf parents have this incredible happiness for having to give birth to a Deaf child because a Deaf baby in a Deaf household signifies that the Deaf heritage of the family will be secure and who are a reflection of themselves. The extra challenges these Deaf families face have a simple remedy, which is to give extra nurturing. Sometimes …show more content…
Some parents may adopt the hearing professionals’ perspective, especially since the specialists’ education and status seem to give their views special credibility. By this, it can be threatening, in some cases the stigma that the Deaf are incapable, unintelligent or viewed negatively, social workers seek to remove children from Deaf families.
This challenge for the parents comes from well-baby check-ups, when bringing the baby to the
Doctor they arrive enthusiastic, cohesive, and full of positive thoughts about their Deaf child, they are most likely to encounter a perspective that, while caring, is also concerned, implying to negativity. There’s a simple remedy these parents use to keep a lid on these challenges, which is to, ignore them. Now, a Deaf baby born to hearing parents is different, their reactions its often the opposite of how Deaf parents would react. To hearing parents, at first, interactions with the baby seem normal, as the baby would present its natural responses, such as, cooing, babbling, and visual dynamics. As the child gets a little older, but still before a year old he starts to show signs of unresponsiveness or no speech and the mother is the first to notice and worry. By …show more content…
When the mothers take the baby in and lets them know her concern, they in turn can’t find anything wrong with the baby. Although the mother suspects there is something wrong, the baby still has some normal responses, so others have a hard time to see there is a problem. also they are not as closely bounded to the child as the mother is. Finally, when its determined their child is Deaf, the hearing parents are devastated. Because they have no knowledge of the Deaf-World or ASL, and
Deaf culture, they turn to clinical professionals and these clinicians always push for the parents of Deaf children to get hearing aids, put them in speech therapy, and so forth. They want them to do all these things for the child that are not included in the Deaf-World. Parents who follow these instructions often run into more problems, so it doesn’t get better it gets worse. Sometimes advice to hearing parents is not all one sided, and they get introduced to the Deaf-World as a better option.
Reaction:
I love that Deaf parents don’t worry if their child is Deaf, I find it as an unconditional love and that’s a special quality to have, not much people do. I also recognized that a Deaf
ASL-201
M - Th 1:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
January 30, 2015
RJ- #2
A Journey Into the Deaf-World
Chapter 2
Families with Deaf Children
Summary:
The chapter talks about Deaf children born into families, either with parents that are Deaf or hearing. It gives an understanding of what its like to both Deaf and hearing parents in contrast.
Starting with a Deaf baby been born to Deaf parents, most Deaf parents have this incredible happiness for having to give birth to a Deaf child because a Deaf baby in a Deaf household signifies that the Deaf heritage of the family will be secure and who are a reflection of themselves. The extra challenges these Deaf families face have a simple remedy, which is to give extra nurturing. Sometimes …show more content…
Some parents may adopt the hearing professionals’ perspective, especially since the specialists’ education and status seem to give their views special credibility. By this, it can be threatening, in some cases the stigma that the Deaf are incapable, unintelligent or viewed negatively, social workers seek to remove children from Deaf families.
This challenge for the parents comes from well-baby check-ups, when bringing the baby to the
Doctor they arrive enthusiastic, cohesive, and full of positive thoughts about their Deaf child, they are most likely to encounter a perspective that, while caring, is also concerned, implying to negativity. There’s a simple remedy these parents use to keep a lid on these challenges, which is to, ignore them. Now, a Deaf baby born to hearing parents is different, their reactions its often the opposite of how Deaf parents would react. To hearing parents, at first, interactions with the baby seem normal, as the baby would present its natural responses, such as, cooing, babbling, and visual dynamics. As the child gets a little older, but still before a year old he starts to show signs of unresponsiveness or no speech and the mother is the first to notice and worry. By …show more content…
When the mothers take the baby in and lets them know her concern, they in turn can’t find anything wrong with the baby. Although the mother suspects there is something wrong, the baby still has some normal responses, so others have a hard time to see there is a problem. also they are not as closely bounded to the child as the mother is. Finally, when its determined their child is Deaf, the hearing parents are devastated. Because they have no knowledge of the Deaf-World or ASL, and
Deaf culture, they turn to clinical professionals and these clinicians always push for the parents of Deaf children to get hearing aids, put them in speech therapy, and so forth. They want them to do all these things for the child that are not included in the Deaf-World. Parents who follow these instructions often run into more problems, so it doesn’t get better it gets worse. Sometimes advice to hearing parents is not all one sided, and they get introduced to the Deaf-World as a better option.
Reaction:
I love that Deaf parents don’t worry if their child is Deaf, I find it as an unconditional love and that’s a special quality to have, not much people do. I also recognized that a Deaf