Deaf Education1 Coping with and Understanding the Deaf Student What is deafness? There are many definitions to the word "deaf." According to Stephen P. Quigley and Peter V. Paul in their book Language and Deafness (1984), "a child is considered deaf if hearing impairment is so great, even with good amplification, that vision becomes the child's main link to the world and main channel of communication." This is a general and relatively vague definition. Other definitions are based on

the Medical Model and the Social Model Introduction The Social Model and the Medical Model both are bodies with the primary aim of aiding and uplifting the Deaf Community, however, the two models have different ways in which they communicate this aim across, as well as achieve their objectives. The models are also distinct in the fact that they do not view the Deaf community in the same way nor do they place emphasis and focus on the same things. This essay shall discuss the two models in relation

Growing up I didn’t know a lot about the deaf world. I just thought that deaf people were people living with a disability, like blind people. In the book A Lens on Deaf Identities by Irene W. Leigh, she makes a bold statement saying: To naïve observers, deaf people are a little like the Bork in the Star Trek films. Deaf people think alike, behave alike, and have the same life experience. You meet one deaf person, you’ve meet them all. This antiquates, one-size-fits-all approach persist even in this

The search for the most effective way to educate deaf students has long been filled with controversy, due to strong advocacy for conflicting approaches. The bilingual model of deaf education has been in place in many schools for the deaf for the past 20 years (Drasgow, 1998), and while many advocates of a strictly oral approach to deaf education discount its success, it is still a viable and appropriate option for deaf students with severe to profound hearing loss. In this paper I will describe historical

Outline the development of the field of deaf education, define deafness and hearing loss, outline their prevalence, and explain their causes and types. Education in relation to hearing disabilities has markedly about-faced since the inaugural of the American Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb founded on April 15,1817 by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (Friend 2014). It has transitioned against residential schools to provincial schools implementation of deaf education ensuing an alteration in

An average of 90% of all babies born deaf or with some type of hearing loss are born to hearing parents. Deafness can be caused by a variety of things both genetic and environmental. Upon learning their child is deaf, most hearing families try to find ways to fix what they feel is a defect. However, deaf families rejoice in their child's deafness because now they have another person to strengthen the deaf community and carry on the American Deaf culture. There are approximately 35 million people

El Deafo, by Cece Bell, offers bunnies as the main characters of a children’s book, explaining the role of deafness in the life of the main character Cece. The character choice of bunnies is very ironic in a way, as bunnies are often known for their hearing. Thus, her book stands out right from the beginning in her selection of topic and characters. The book starts off with Cece starting a new school, which being new is always scary, but this scenario is different, Cece is deaf. At the age of four

need? Deafness itself has historically been viewed as a physical impairment, similar to blindness, and both cognitive and motor impairments. Though today, deafness is considered a trait, not a disability. The debilitating effects of deafness can be helped through hearing aids, cochlear implants, assistive listening devices, and through the ability of speech (and visually reading others lips). Any traits that group members share can be perceived as positive by people in that group. So if deafness is

of the spectrum, there may be a deaf child of hearing parents whom show no interest in interacting with their deaf child. Those who have deaf parents are more likely to develop a strong sense of independence because they have their parents as role models. Unfortunately, those with hearing parents may not have much of a support system. There are many cases where hearing parents don’t learn their own child’s language and don’t care to communicate with them. These children may have a low self-esteem

in the importance of the deaf culture. Typically, the deaf community would include people who share the same language, regardless of their races, religions, socio-economic status. With that in mind, deaf people culturally hold the perception that deafness is a social phenomenon rather than a type of disability. They are so proud of their language, culture, traditions, art and organizations. On the other hand, there is another camp that believes in the dire necessity to introduce children with hearing