annakinn
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Hi! I'm new to writing here, but I've been reading the pages for a while. I'm figuring out how to customize my profile and wall and write a bio about myself. Sorry it's so blah right now, but I'll get around to it!
I'm profound deaf, and I've had a CI since before I was 4, I'm 18 now. After graduation I'm going to take a year off before going to college and I plan to work for my father for part of the time and travel for part of the time. This year I'm working on a cross-disciplinary project for History/English and trying to track my family history of deafness through as many generations as I can and write about the differences each generation faced in terms of attitudes and education. I'm interviewing some of my family members, and my mother is a special education teacher, she teaches at a deaf school, and she'll be asking some older co-workers about their experiences. Has anyone here done a paper like this on their history? Did you find out anything surprising? I'm most interested in reading about the different ways people have been educated over the years, and I know there are many forums on that here, so basically just wanted to let you know why I'm lurking and say hello, nice to meet you.
I'm profound deaf, and I've had a CI since before I was 4, I'm 18 now. After graduation I'm going to take a year off before going to college and I plan to work for my father for part of the time and travel for part of the time. This year I'm working on a cross-disciplinary project for History/English and trying to track my family history of deafness through as many generations as I can and write about the differences each generation faced in terms of attitudes and education. I'm interviewing some of my family members, and my mother is a special education teacher, she teaches at a deaf school, and she'll be asking some older co-workers about their experiences. Has anyone here done a paper like this on their history? Did you find out anything surprising? I'm most interested in reading about the different ways people have been educated over the years, and I know there are many forums on that here, so basically just wanted to let you know why I'm lurking and say hello, nice to meet you.