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Module 2 Reflection Paper
Lexie McBride
UNF
3514 Deaf Culture
Professor Stultz
2/18/24
Module 2 Reflection Paper
Deaf history leading up to the present has had its ups and downs. Beginning with
Laurent Clerc, the fight for CDI’s, speech therapy, oralism, Rochester method, banning of sign
language, and the absence of language in Deaf children in general. Fortunately, the hearing
world is slowly becoming more accepting and creating more and more opportunities for
accessibility for all.
A deaf man named Laurent Clerc co-founded the American School for the Deaf
in Hartford, Connecticut. ASL can be traced back to old French, Native American, and
African American sign language. This was the big beginning into American Deaf culture. In the 1800’s, Deaf schools had been using ASL and English to teach deaf
students in school. 80 years later many hearing and little deaf people gathered at the
Milan Conference which resulted in the banning of sign language. This contributed to
the method of oralism. This was absolutely insane that the hearing individuals at the
conference even had a say due to the result only affecting the deaf community. After
this event, in 1922 through 1947, Alexander Graham Bell led a campaign against deaf
people. 1950 – 1960 was the start of the era in which the realization set in that the
oralist method was not working. Johnny Samuels, our Guest Speaker, had stated in his presentation that when he
was young, the oralist method was widely used and focused on as well as fingerspelling
and the Rochester method. None of these solely could ever be used to create a
successful language with expression of real emotion.
Unfortunately, still to this day, speech therapy is the first choice among many
doctors when it comes to deaf children among hearing parents. ASL is currently the
second choice among doctors. ASL has been proven many times over that it is more
effective than any oral method or speech therapy method, yet doctors still refuse to
suggest ASL first. Due to many hearing parents not having the correct resources to help
their child thrive, 19.4%-35% do not have ASL, English, or home signs. This is a huge
issue that deaf children are not receiving language in the most important part of their
life.
Something new that I learned in this module is that there are Deaf interpreters,
they are called CDI’s (certified deaf interpreters). They attend legal settings in order to
ensure that the hearing interpreter is not cheating during the legal case, or relaying
information incorrectly to the judge. There is a current fight that wants CDI’s to always
be in interpreting situations.
Overall, this module covered a lot of downs in deaf history in relation to ups.
However we can see a small improvement in the way that deaf people are being
treated.
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