Week 11 Information

Presentation

By Ashley Ellis
7/19/14
ASL Grammar
When saying wh questions (like when, what, who, where, why) the eyebrows are squeezed
together and the head is forward.
When saying YES or NO the eyebrows are
up and head is forward.
When saying affirmative declarative sentences like
I WILL you sign with your head nodding.
When saying negative declarative sentences
like I CANT you sign with your head shaking.
When saying neutral things like, me GO STORE
you do not nod or shake your head.
When asking a rhetorical question raise your
eyebrows using a neutral expression.
Deaf Culture - Cochlear
Implants

https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/pages/coch.aspx
Cochlear implants continued
A cochlear implant is a small, complex electronic device that can help to provide a sense of sound to a
person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing.
A cochlear implant has both internal and external parts that help the user hear sound.
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in
December 2012, approximately 324,200 people worldwide
have received cochlear implants. In the United States,
roughly 58,000 adults and 38,000 children have received
them.
http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Cochlear-Implant/
Children and adults who are deaf or severely hard-of-hearing can be fitted for cochlear implants.
One site focuses on who
is a good candidate for
cochlear implants
the other focuses on all type of
people not only children
One site focuses on
all the bad that comes
with surgery
the other says that there is
complications but that
everyone is different
Some people will always be against getting cochlear implants because it might ruin their
identity of being deaf and sometimes that is the case and sometimes it is not. Some people are
defiantly for getting cochlear implants just to be normal (even though no one really knows
what normal is) and when doing that they lose all sense of who they really are.
I think that if you think that is the best thing for your child, go ahead do it. If you think that
your children will miss out on things in life because they are hard-of-hearing or deaf, get them a
cochlear implant. Do not hold out on your children because you are scared what might happen.
You will never know if you never try.
Sound and Fury pt 2

http://youtu.be/0ki4qo-
Dfos
Wow things just got real. All the arguments whether cochlear implants were good for Heather or not
were so complicated but so true. If she got the implants now, would she lose her identity to the hearing
world; whether or not getting cochlear would help her in her future, or just her losing her knowledge of
signing all together. These twenty minutes were things that the deaf community went through and still
continues to go through since the making of cochlear implants.
My opinion about the cochlear implant; has always and will always be, if you think that is the best for
your child, go ahead and do it. I am not saying this just because I am in the hearing world, because if I
were deaf I would try and think how hard was my life when I was a little girl and try and make a
decision that will help my daughter and hope that she doesn't lose out in the Deaf Community.