Oh, For Gawds sake Bebonang, this isn't the 50's, check your diary and you will see that we are in 2011's and in few weeks it will be 2012, Why must you attack new posters like you did when I first signed up!
There is people who appericates music however deaf they are, it's their choice! The choice was there. When I was going up to secondary school i had either choice, go to mainstream but they won't teach me music (and foregin languages) or go to all deaf boarding school, I chose to go to deaf boarding school because i wanted to learn Music and french, an opporunity that i wouldn't have if i went mainstream. It was purely my choice. I don't think parents would force any child to do what they don't want to do as it would be pointless if they are refusing to do anything. No one had forced me to play on the piano (grand). I did enjoy the feeling of different tunes/vibrations, I used to take my shoes off when playing.
Well done, shannoncaelie, for taking that path, i am sure there is plenty of deaf people who are keen to learn but don't have the confidence to do so or have a patient teacher. Have you looked up Evelyn Glennie? she is deaf percussionist, i think that what it is!
Teach music to the deaf and hard of hearing. OMC (Oh, my Creator), this had happened to me when I was taught to feel the music from the piano and we can not tell from the notes of the music at all. I remembered that we were not happy to have the teachers force us to try to appreciate music when we were deaf. Good Grief, you have no idea if you don't hear anything or very little sounds. Do we have to go back to the Dark ages again? :roll:
