Analysis Of Through Deaf Eyes

After watching the video ‘Through Deaf Eyes’ I’ve gained a better insight into the history of not only deaf people, but deaf culture as well. Even after our eight week course on deaf culture I was still able to be surprised, shocked, and fascinated, and educated by this video. ‘Through Deaf Eyes’ serves a reminder of all the things we learned throughout the semester and those who are familiar with dead history, but a great learning tool for those who are uneducated on the subject matter.

I even after going through our American Sign Language course, I still was able to find things in this video surprising. For instance, I found it surprising that Alexander Graham Bell taught deaf children and that his wife and mother were both deaf themselves.

However, there are some things that I find more important than other parts. For example, I find it useful that this video emphasizes that deaf people want to make themselves understood. It it also useful that the video corrects common myths about being deaf. For instance, the video states having a deaf child is not a tragedy, deaf people are normal, and that deafness shouldn't be seen as a handicap. It is also useful that the video details that there are thirty-five million people who are to some degree hard of hearing and out of that population three-hundred thousand are deaf. All in all the video is useful because it paints deaf people and deaf culture and deaf people accurately and in a good

I thought it was interesting how the video described that there are two plants one called Eye-th and one called Earth and that deaf people live on Eye-th. I also thought it was interesting that Charles Lindbergh charged parents hoping to cure their child’s deafness fifty dollars for deaf flights. I also found it interesting that during the Civil Rights Era racism and segregation did not miss the deaf community. Deaf schools were segregated between white and black children. I also found it interesting that TTY systems weighed over two hundred pounds and were owned by telephone companies when they first