What is cognitive skills?
Human cognitive skills include long- and short-term memory, visual processing, auditory processing, processing speed, and logic. They are the major skills that our brain uses to think, remember, read, reason and pay attention. All of these skills are working together to process incoming information and form our knowledge. That means if one of these skills is weak, the ability of our brain to process any kind of information is impacted. Thus, Cognitive skills are different between ordinary people and people with special needs like blindness, deafness and intellectual disability. (learningrx.com).
Deaf's Cognitive Skills:
Before we start in this section, let’s understand the theory of mind, Theory of Mind allows us to predict and interpret actions of other people by assuming their thoughts,
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For instance, the lack in access to conversations in the environment causes deaf children to miss important information about the world (Westby,2014). Although even their language delays are intense, they get a massive amount of information about the world through visual means. ( Schick , Villiers, & Vill, December 3, 2002)
In addition, Deaf children of deaf parents perform obviously better on tasks that related to the theory of mind than deaf children of hearing parents. (Westby , 2014). According to Padden, Ramsey( 2000), deaf parents provide earlier and more consistent access to the language and, hence, knowledge of the world and this has been found to have positive effects on achievement among deaf students.
However, Gudyanga.E, Wadesango, Eliphanos, Gudyanga,A (2014) acknowledgment that deaf students are still known to have poor reading attainment levels even at school leaving age. Moreover, According to the National Deaf Children’s Society (2012),Deaf children perform less well than hearing children of the same reading ability in the suffix spelling
Have you ever felt like there was nothing that you can do for your child? In this book, Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley, I can see the journey that Lynn’s parents took to get her help. (Spradley & Spradley, 1978). This book was an excellent read. I really liked the way that they described the ways they tried to help Lynn to understand the world around her. The book, is a great asset for any family that might be unexpectedly put into a situation that they know nothing about such as a deaf child.
Kimmy Bachmann A Journey into the Deaf-World Chapter 1 The narrator begins this chapter by introducing himself as well as his colleagues and co-authors. Ben Bahan, the narrator, is a deaf man from New Jersey whom was raised by deaf parents and a hearing sister. After spending an immense amount of time studying American Sign Language (ASL) he moved on to now become an assistant professor at Gallaudet University in the Deaf studies Department. His colleague Harlan Lane, a hearing man, is a specialist in the psychology of language and having many titles is a key aspect of this book as he believes, as does most of the Deaf-World, that they are a minority language and takes up their point of view to the hearing world.
Have you ever felt like there was nothing you could do for your child? In the book, Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley, I can tell you the journey that Lynn’s parents had to take to get her help. This book was excellent, I really liked the way that they described the ways that they tried to help Lynn to understand the world around her. In this book, I also saw how a mother and father can do anything for their child so that they can understand all that is around them. This book, is also a great asset to any family that might be unexpectedly thrown into a situation that they do not expect, such as a deaf child.
Mark Drolsbaugh, the author of Deaf Again, was born to deaf parents at a time when the deaf population didn’t have and weren’t given the same availability to communication assistance as they have today. He was born hearing and seemed to have perfect hearing up until the first grade when he started having trouble understanding what was being said but was too young to understand what was happening. (Drolsbaugh 8).
There are many important issues mentioned in the the book Deaf Again. The book talked about things beyond disabilities. People tend to judge others who are not similar to them or their ideal image of normal. The overall need for communication is the major topic that is stressed in the text. The foundation of a relationship is built off of the strength of communication, so being able to communicate with all is a very important aspect of life.
My response to this question is two-fold. Firstly, I believe that (for the most part), Deaf people actually like being deaf. While observing my neighbor (who happens to be deaf), I realize, he is never unpleasant, he keeps an unceasing smile on his face, is eager to help us hearing neighbors whenever applicable, and in general, he always looks for the silver lining in the clouds. I don’t think that I could ever work up the nerve to ask him if he’d desired the ability to hear. I’ve never seen him preoccupied with his inability to hear, so why should I. His deafness is a part of who he is. In our book, it mentions that being Deaf is a part of the individuals’ personality, an attribute just as important to a person that is right or left-handed. Why would Deaf people want to be hearing? If a person is born deaf, such as my neighbor, they don’t find themselves missing what they never experienced. Our book lends to us the illustration of someone who is
English is an interesting language. English is comprised of many different words from different languages all mashed up and mixed together. English is a very hard language to learn, especially if you can’t hear it. How easy would it be to confuse a “B” with a “P”, they sound similar and when trying to lip read how can you tell the difference? I feel that young Deaf /hard of hearing students being taught by a Deaf teacher or a child of a Deaf adult (C.O.D.A) teacher is very important because ASL is the first step to learning English and becoming bilingual. According to the article Why Schools for Deaf Children Should Hire Deaf Teachers: A Preschool Issue By Courtney Shantie and Robert Hoffmeister, the authors state “This paper will focus on
Dr Jim Cromwell has also found that those deaf children who are being educated in mainstream schools are not getting the education that they be worthy of. There is not enough support for them, they are being helped by teaching assistants with level 2 BSL, which is less than an O-Level.
Getting a job is a primary goal for many people. It provides an income and a way for people to contribute to society. In today’s society, though, unemployment rates are high and getting a job can be difficult. Certain opportunities and situations can make it easier or harder for a person. Being outgoing or having a higher education can make it easier, while some conditions and disabilities that make it much harder. Being Deaf is one of those conditions that makes it harder to find work.
Deaf and hearing impaired individuals are know longer an out cast group. They now have there own deaf community. Deaf individuals do not consider themselves having an impairment, handicap, or any type of disability. They believe that through the use of sign language, other communication skills, and technology that there deafness is the way they are supposed to be. Many people who have perfect hearing can not understand deaf people and why they embrace there deafness instead of trying to receive hearing and get rid of there handicap. However not all deaf people have th...
The deaf community does not see their hearing impairment as a disability but as a culture which includes a history of discrimination, racial prejudice, and segregation. According to an online transcript,“Through Deaf Eyes” (Weta and Florentine films/Hott productions Inc., 2007) there are thirty-five million Americans that are hard of hearing. Out of the thirty-five million an estimated 300,000 people are completely deaf. There are ninety percent of deaf people who have hearing parents (Halpern, C., 1996). Also, most deaf parents have hearing children. With this being the exemplification, deaf people communicate on a more intimate and significant level with hearing people all their lives. “Deaf people can be found in every ethnic group, every region, and every economic class” (Weta and Florentine films/Hott productions Inc., 2007). The deaf culture and hard of hearing have plenty of arguments and divisions with living in a hearing world without sound however, that absence will be a starting point of an identity within their culture as well as the hearing culture (Weta and Florentine films/Hott productions Inc., 2007).
From a deafness-as-defect mindset, many well-meaning hearing doctors, audiologists, and teachers work passionately to make deaf children speak; to make these children "un-deaf." They try hearing aids, lip-reading, speech coaches, and surgical implants. In the meantime, many deaf children grow out of the crucial language acquisition phase. They become disabled by people who are anxious to make them "normal." Their lack of language, not of hearing, becomes their most severe handicap. While I support any method that works to give a child a richer life, I think a system which focuses on abilities rather than deficiencies is far more valuable. Deaf people have taught me that a lack of hearing need not be disabling. In fact, it shouldn?t be considered a lack at all. As a h...
Lou, Mimi WheiPing. Language Learning and Deafness: The history of language use in the education of the Deaf in the United States. Ed. Michael Strong. Cambridge: Cambridge Universtiy Press, 1988. 77-96. Print.
For example, pg. 136 of our book, Speech, Language & Hearing Disorders: Guide for the Teacher by Barbara Hall, Herbert Oyer and William Haas, states that “hard of hearing children consistently show a 2-to3 year lag in vocabulary development, while deaf children show a significantly wider gap.” As the project taught us, in addition to helping improve any phonological, articulation and social language issues, as well as helping the patient learn to hear with their hearing device in noise, the speech-language pathologist is responsible for expanding a deaf child’s mental lexicon; an educator should do the same, and offer additional instruction after school. The book does say that “many mainstreamed hearing-impaired students cannot achieve the same goals as their hearing peers” (Hall, Oyer and Haas, 2001, pg. 136) and by the teacher talking to the parents and offering this assistance after school – or in the case of an older student, study hall – this will help to close the gap. While another point of the project was that some deaf children are more successful in speech/language learning than others, again, I do believe this additional assistance can help the child in getting to the same level as their normal hearing
Deaf people are not dumb since the Greek period Deaf were thought to be dumb. Even after all the events in history 350 years ago, the Deaf are still misunderstood. There is no time like the present and future. The hearing world needs change their perception. Three hundred fifty years ago Europeans understood the Deaf could learn and express their intelligence (MacDougal). Deaf people have come a long way in history from that many years ago to now, because even being pushed around for so long they still proudly stand tall with their lack of