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Actually, I have already seen the YouTube video of My son is deaf, finally.  It is an example of why hearing parents want to make their son or daughter to hear like them.  Most of the parents do not want to sign halfway at all.  Or not even being interest in meeting the needs of deaf children, when the deaf children struggle trying to learn to speak and listen.  CI surgery is not going to make them one hundred percent hearing like listening.  Do we, Deaf people, have to struggle and feel like we are being betray when no one is not willing to help us to communicate with hearing people by signing? 


I tried to talk to my parents about signing ASL or sign language when I was in high school, so that we can meet halfway.  But no, they were not interested in that and told me that I can communicated with them by speaking and lipreading them.  That was enough for them.  I was very upset and angry with my parents.  They just wanted the easy way out of not using the sign language at all.  I have to pay the price when I need visual aid very badly.  It just hurt me so much.   No wonder I am doing poorly in mainstream schools and not getting the needs of visual aids. 


If I want to have my son who is hearing to be deaf like me.  I would love that in a heartbeat.  But I am also glad that he can sign to me at home instead of public when he was growing up.  So communicating with me in ASL help me very much and understand better than lipreading.  :D


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