Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Learning my Native Language



Three articles about deaf people’s life, all of them are very different from each other because deaf have different experience in their life and how does they process hearing people with their deafness. I will type three different stories of their children’s life, then do I agree or disagree with their parents’ decide and doing to their deaf children. Then, I will compare with three stories the difference and contrast them.
“Learning my Native language” talked about one young deaf child who have hearing parents who had high expectations in him which mean they decide to put him to oral school, force him to learn to speech which he still suggest with it because when his father said legs but he thought this was eggs instead. Other part of this story, “I remember being humiliated in first grade, his teacher asked him, what sound a fire makes? Then he answer, pop which this is wrong answer, this suppose be hiss instead. I’m strongly disagreeing with their parents because this isn’t fair for their son who had tough time to learning how to speak; I think their parents should move him to deaf school instead oral school. “The Hand of my Father”, one young deaf child who live in farm and only deaf family member in his family. One of part of his poem said, “Not once my father signs to me. He was a farmer and his explanations were for the ground. Corn, rain, earth.” This is one and only way for father to commutation to him. I strongly disagree with his father because he wasn’t high expectation in him to learn more of sign language; he just used him as “maid” at farm. “Recollections” is very rarely happen because a young deaf boy and his parents is deaf too even his parents force him go to oral school instead deaf school because of education. Somehow, his mother notices that he isn’t happy with oral school because school would punish him for signing. Then, they decide to move him to Kendall school, which is deaf school, that on Gallaudet’s campus. Once, he moved to that school, he got out of control easily because he don’t used with everyone in that school is deaf which this affect him to transfer to special class. Of course, his parents is very upset about it then his mother decide to become high expectations in him, he become more success with vocabulary, this made him back to regular and love in school. The contrast is showing clearly from three articles is completely different from each other because first article talk about one child have problem with speaking but their parents don’t care and didn’t listen to their child’s feeling. Second article talk about one child is very suffer with his father because he never bother to take him to learning America Sign Language (ASL) or speech therapy, therefore, his father kind of treat him as thing. Third article talk about parents who listen to their child’s feeling always and taught him, their child becomes success. So, all of three articles’ point is any parents who supposed to listen to their child’s feeling then they will be success, if they decide to not then they won’t success or success in tough way.

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