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Hi all. I am new to this site and am a hearing person. I am taking a deaf culture and community class this semester, and I have a project to do. I need a hard of hearing person who went to public school and doesn’t know sign language, a hard of hearing person who knows sign language and went to a public or deaf school, a deaf person who went to public school, and a deaf person who went to a deaf school to answer these questions if you can.
1. What is your opinion on the cochlear implant, and should babies be implanted?
2. Should the police force learn sign language so that they can communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing?
3. What was your schooling experience like?
4. Were you brought up involved in the deaf community or in the hearing community, what was your experience like?
Thank you all so much!
 
1. What is your opinion on the cochlear implant, and should babies be implanted? Too young to implant on baby. Rather wait until old enough to make decision between kid and parents.
2. Should the police force learn sign language so that they can communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing? Well, police is not required to learn sign language for pull over to give you ticket. But if crime presents, i rather used interpreter instead of depending on police's choppy sign language unless if police is CODA. Great!
3. What was your schooling experience like?There is up and down. Same with hearing student but at disadvantage of this- intrepreter in my time were difficult to follow the ethnic and took advantage of students in past but as today, interpreter has to be professional or get fired!
4. Were you brought up involved in the deaf community or in the hearing community, what was your experience like? Involved in both world as my parents guide us into world. My parents knows sign language as they had been involved with me and my sister. My experience is more value as I grew up when I learn something positive and negative.
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Hi!

Good questions. AD has a part about CI and HA: link. And education: link. Other parts have good threads on these questions also. If you don't have good answers, maybe they help. :)
 
hey technically, i'm deaf, but you can put me under Hard of Hearing as i've been HoH most of my life and have never really experienced any change in communication. I still wear just one BTE like I have since the 5th grade and my ability to distinguish speech without lipreading is basically unchanged. Also I have only been to public schools, & i know ASL, but I don't use it often and never needed it in high school. So umm just classify me as HoH/knows a sign language/went to public school!


1. What is your opinion on the cochlear implant, and should babies be implanted?

no, babies should not be implanted! Parents should wait until their kid is old enough to make an informed decision. My opinion about CIs though is that if a kid is deaf they deserve to have a decent exposure to the deaf world, but I am not pro- or anti-CI. I just think that if the parents are involved they are not entitled to take the easiest route/be lazy in their choice. (If deaf parents have a hearing kid, I like to think they would do the same, too.) Also I think that if a kid is deaf, their family should go the extra length to learn ASL, REGARDLESS of implantation. but I am not anti-CI and am probably going to get one, myself.

2. Should the police force learn sign language so that they can communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing?

Errrmmmm.... no. Interesting question though... but let's not assume that all deaf/HoH people know sign language. It's more a question of co-operation between the deaf person and the police officer. A pad of paper and a pen should suffice. I think police officers just need more of a general awareness of deafness. But, it would be good if police officers learned a few key signs that had to do with policing (i.e. general commands that a police officer would make; they could learn how to sign these commands)

3. What was your schooling experience like?

It sucked, especially elementary school. The last couple years of high school weren't so bad. College is coming along nicely. I've never had much of a social life until now, and in elementary school, I didn't learn anything during grades 5, 6, and 7 (elem = K through 7, secondary = 8 through 12) because there was ZERO accommodation apart from thrusting an FM system on me (didn't help). I went to a great high school though that really knew what it was doing in terms of accommodating students who were deaf/hard of hearing. My college, thus far (I'm a 1st year) hasn't really provided adequate accommodation but it's getting there. Apparently I didn't meet up with them soon enough.


4. Were you brought up involved in the deaf community or in the hearing community, what was your experience like?

I was brought up completely in the hearing community. The experience made me feel a little bit distanced from my family at times because I am the only person with a hearing loss, but they're still great. I wish I knew more deaf/HoH people as I only have one deaf friend right now, I met her in September. I have not really involved myself in the deaf community, although I did take 2 ASL/Deaf culture classes in high school; that's about it.
 
1. What is your opinion on the cochlear implant, and should babies be implanted?
When it comes to babies and very young children, I'd rather they have hearing aids on first. I can understand why parents implant their children, to get the language development going as soon as possible. But if it were my child, I would want for that child to make the decision on whether or not he/she wants a CI. It's a very personal decision.

2. Should the police force learn sign language so that they can communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing?
It would be nice if they did.

3. What was your schooling experience like?
I went to a deaf school for K-6. I wasn't at the deaf school the entire day though, I took a few classes at the adjoining public school (once students finished 6th grade, they were to either go out of state to another deaf school, or be mainstreamed into a public school with services such as interpreters, etc.) to get the experience of being mainstreamed. If it wasn't for this deaf school, I wouldn't be who I am today. They have made a huge difference for me, educating me. It was at the deaf school that I really started to speak again with my voice, and I continued to learn sign language, how to take care of my hearing aids and FM systems, etc. Not only that, but I learned how to be an advocate for myself. It was 9th grade when I experienced traditional education, and that was a bad, BAD year for me. Since then, I'm still trying to get my self advocacy back and trying to get back to who I used to be before 9th grade.

4. Were you brought up involved in the deaf community or in the hearing community, what was your experience like?
Throughout my public school years, I was exposed to the deaf community. Here in Wyoming, there's what is called WYHI Contact, WYHI stands for WYoming Hearing Impaired. It's held twice a year during the school year, and deaf and hard of hearing students (and adults and families) from all over Wyoming come together to interact, socialize and have fun. Since there is no longer a deaf school in Wyoming, deaf students are put into public schools in their hometowns, and usually they're the only deaf/HOH student in that entire school, or even community, so it's hard to be exposed to the deaf community while living in Wyoming. I praise the Department of Education for planning the WYHI's for the students, but even that alone is still not enough.
But for myself, after I finished at the local deaf school, it was mostly the hearing community I was exposed to, although from time to time I would have the chance to be exposed to the deaf community for whatever reason.
 
I was born deaf and attended schools for the deaf. The first school was oral but I learned sign language from friends and on the school bus where one can sign openly. The high school is a private catholic school. I attended a college for the deaf as well.

1. What is your opinion on the cochlear implant, and should babies be implanted?
I am ambivalent on CI. Great for those latened-deaf people but not so great for those who were born deaf because the parents are thinking of CI as a 100% cure and not liable to learn sign language. No CI for those babies.

2. Should the police force learn sign language so that they can communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing?
Just basic survival sign language as I hope they will be able to tell the difference between sign language and gang sign language.

3. What was your schooling experience like?
Education - lousy! (except for the high school) Overall, pretty much average for a deaf student.

4. Were you brought up involved in the deaf community or in the hearing community, what was your experience like?
Half and Half. I have deaf friends over (and vice versa) when I was young. In high school, I don't feel isolated like I do at home because my family don't know sign language. I also have a very good friend who is hearing (now deaf in one ear due to brain tumor surgery).
 
Hello and Welcome. I am a deafblind person who was born mildly HOH and wasn't exposed to sign language at all until college. Only I didn't get to learn much signing as my sight went.

curve_chic said:
1. What is your opinion on the cochlear implant, and should babies be implanted?
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NO! I think it is unethnical for babies to have CI. They are best learning proper sign language and speach via hearing aid or other method such as tactiaids until they are old enough to make their own decision.

2. Should the police force learn sign language so that they can communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing?
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They could learn the basics on how to communiicate to deaf or deafblind via none verbal means such as fingerspelling, block capital letters or using pen and paper.

3. What was your schooling experience like?
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varied. I attended a special primary school as I also have Asperger syndrome and then a completely normal high school where I was bullied so much I had to leave. Then I went to another high school with a partial hearing unit which was completely oral. They discouraged signing. They even discouraged mixing with the other deaf kids but we go together anyway.

4. Were you brought up involved in the deaf community or in the hearing community, what was your experience like?
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Hearing community until I went to a deaf college but I hadn't learn't too much signing before I lost my sight which made learning signing more difficult. Being a loner and not being able to mix well didn't help either.
 
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